Evaluation of the Role of Housing in the Life Quality of Citizens (Case Example: District 12 of Tehran Metropolis)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 PhD Candidate, Department of Architecture, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

2 PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

10.22034/ias.2021.281620.1589

Abstract

Adequate housing has been one of the first human needs. In the interim, the quality of housing is one of the components preferred by humans regarding its construction. Non-standard housing for permanent residence, directly and indirectly, brings social consequences, psychological damage and violation of laws and regulations. Crime is one of the harmful factors that result from overcrowded or dilapidated houses and neighborhoods with low standards. The information obtained from the questionnaires were analyzed using the statistical analysis methods of Spearman's correlation and regression tests in the SPSS software environment. Multivariate regression analysis was used to investigate the research hypothesis. The statistical community is the residents of the 12th district of Tehran. Moreover, five indicators of economic justice, individual well-being, satisfaction with access, quality of environment and housing were included in the model. Among the indicators of the quality of life, economic justice has had the greatest impact on the changes in the quality of housing in Tehran’s 12th district. The variable of housing quality in twelve neighborhoods of Abshar, Sangalaj, Shahid Harandi, Ferdowsi, Qiyam, Kowsar, Pamenar, Imamzadeh Yahya, Iran, Bazar, Baharestan and Takhti have a direct relationship with the intensity and a relatively strong relationship with the quality of life variable. This affiliation is significant in all the mentioned neighborhoods with a calculated significance level of less than 0.05, and the relationship between the quality of housing variable and the quality of life variable in the Shemiran neighborhood with a significance level of 0.0574 regarding more than 0.05 is not significant. Among the economic, social and environmental dimensions of the quality of life variable, the distance of the economic and environmental dimension had a direct relationship with the housing quality variable. Among the dimensions of physical, environmental, well-being and comfort and livelihood and economy in the variable of housing quality, the positive relationship between the three dimensions of physical, environmental and well-being and comfort with the variable of quality of life was confirmed.

Research aims:
1. Evaluation of the role of housing in the quality of life and restructuring of District 12 as the historical center of the Tehran metropolis.
2. Extraction of urban life quality indicators in the quality of life in the District 12 of Tehran.

Research questions:
1. What is the role of housing in the quality of life?
2. What are the effective factors in the biological quality and restructuring of the region as the historical center of Tehran metropolis?

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Islamic Art Studies
Volume 19, Issue 45 - Serial Number 45
February 2021
Pages 176-186

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