An Evaluation of Effects of Social-Physical Organisation on Residential Satisfation: The Case of North Narmak Neighborhood in Tehran

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1 M.A» Degree on Urban Planning, Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.

2 Associate Professor of Department of Urban Planning, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Paying attention to the social and physicalorganization of neighborhoods is important from different aspects. Tehran's Neighborhoods experienced different urban patterns during their formation and development. In particular, North Narmakneighborhood has experiencedtwo different patterns in its eastern and western parts.The aim of this paperis to analyze the relationship between residents and their environment in two parts of North Naramk neighborhood by emphasizing social-physical organization of this neighborhood, and applyingplace theory. We concentrate onimportant factors that predict residential satisfaction. To gather needed datawe distributeda questionnaire to 300 randomly selected residents in eastern and western parts of North Narmak. Our analysis has been based on three levels (residential, housing and neighborhood), two dimensions(objective - subjective) and five factors (housing, physical organization, environmental, social organization and cognitive - emotional)of satisfaction.The results indicate that the level of residential satisfaction in east part is less than the average (mean=3) and in west part is more than the average.In both parts, the housing satisfaction is more than the average and the neighborhood satisfaction is less than the average.Also, with respect tothe subjective and objective dimensions, only objective satisfaction of west part is more than the average level of satisfaction and the others are lower than the average.

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Journal of Social Problems of Iran
Volume 5, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
Spring&Summer
June 2014
Pages 113-140

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