Urban Environment Quality Improvement Planning Case Study: Moft Abad Neighborhood, Tehran, Iran

Authors: Elham Lashkari, Mehrshad Khalaj

Abstract:

Rapid enlargement and physical development of cities have facilitated the emergence of a number of city life crises and decrease of environment quality. Subsequently, the need for noticing the concept of quality and its improvement in urban environments, besides quantitative issues, is obviously recognized. In the domain of urban ideas the importance of taking these issues into consideration is obvious not only in accordance to sustainable development concepts and improvement of public environment quality, but also in the enhancement of social and behavioral models. The major concern of present article is to study the nature of urban environment quality in urban development plans, which is important not only in the concept and the aim of projects but also in their execution procedure. As a result, this paper is going to utilize planning capacities caused by environmental virtues in the planning procedure of Moft Abad neighborhood. Thus, at the first step, applying the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), it has assessed quantitative environmental issues. The present conditions of Moft Abad state that “the neighborhood is generally suffering from the lack of qualitative parameters, and the previously formed planning procedures could not take the sustainable and developmental paths which are aimed at environment quality virtues." The diminution of economical and environmental virtues has resulted in the diminution of residential and social virtues. Therefore, in order to enhance the environment quality in Moft Abad, the present paper has tried to supply the subject plans in order to make a safe, healthy, and lively neighborhood.

Keywords: Urban Environment Quality, Neighborhood Plan, Urban Development Plan, Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1058145

References:

[1] Ge, Jian., Hokao, Kazunori, Research on residential lifestyles in Japanese cities from the viewpoints of residential preference, residential choice and residential satisfaction, J. Landscape and Urban Planning, 2006, pp.165-178.
[2] Lansing, J. B. and R. W. Marans, evaluation of neighborhood, J. of the American Institute of Planners, 1969, pp. 195-199.
[3] Profect, Michuel and Power, Gorden, planning for urban quality, London, 1992.
[4] Shahr o Barname Consulting engineering, Detail plan for district 13- Tehran, 2005.
[5] Van Poll, R., The perceived quality of the urban residential environment. A multi-attribute evaluation. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, 1997.
[6] Zebardast, Esfandiar, Usage AHP in urban & regional planning, Honarhay e Ziba magazine, 2001, No 10.
[7] Kuyler, P., Application of multi-criteria analysis in land use decisions, Centre for environmental management, University of the Free State, 2006.