Assessing the Social Sustainability of Housing in Informal Settlements (Case Study: Ardabil City)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

2 PhD student in Geography and Urban Planning, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

3 Master of Geography and Urban Planning - Urban Improvement and Renovation, Payame Noor University, Tabriz, Iran

Abstract

With the increase of social inequalities in today's cities, social challenges have become the most important issue in stabilizing and one of the biggest housing threats. Among the components of sustainability in urban settlements, the social sustainability of housing is one of the most important concerns of managers and urban decision makers. In the present study, considering the importance of the above variable, the degree of social stability of housing in informal settlements of Ardabil has been evaluated. The city of Ardabil, due to irregular rural-urban migration, has experienced increasing physical and population growth in the last three decades, and this has led to the formation of suburbs around the city to attract additional population, these neighborhoods in the field of social sustainability of housing And there are problems. Therefore, the present study aims to investigate the social sustainability of housing in informal settlements in Ardabil. The present study is an applied type and in terms of the nature of the descriptive-analytical method, which is followed by the survey method and questionnaire tools and Gis software to explain the evaluation components. In this study, to analyze, evaluate and rank the studied neighborhoods in terms of social sustainability of housing, multi-criteria decision-making models of TOPSIS, VICOR, SAW and Copeland integration model have been used. According to the findings, the results showed that based on the dimensions analyzed in the evaluation of social sustainability of housing in informal neighborhoods of Ardabil, Iranabad neighborhood (Jane Kennedy) has the highest rate of housing instability and Salmanabad neighborhood has the lowest rate of housing instability compared to other neighborhoods. Are studied in this study.

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March 2023
Pages 115-142

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  • Receive Date: 12 March 2022
  • Revise Date: 12 February 2023
  • Accept Date: 19 February 2023

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