Analysing Urban Quality of Life Using Entropy Method and SAW Technique Case Study: Urban Texture of Miyandoab

Document Type : Research Paper

Abstract

City as the loftiest symbol of human civilization has a fundamental role in a good life for all human being.  But concentrating on the quantitative dimension of city growth has bipolarized the cities in many developing countries. So, a new concept as quality of life has been emerged to solve the problems of urban residents and the promotion of his quality of life. In fact, this paper aims to define the levels of quality of life in the different urban textures (old, new and rural) in Miyandoaab on the base of four indexes which are included social, economic, physical-environmental and subjective-mental. The methodology of the research is based on the descriptive and analytical methods. The data were collected by conducting a questionnaire and documentary proofs.  Cochran technique was used to determine the number of samples. Also Entropy and SAW were applied to analysis and rank the neighborhoods of the city. The results revealed that the index of green space had scores of 0.4768, 0.3518, 0.3265 and 0.2912 in the old, new, and rural and city as whole respectively which showed considerable difference with other indexes and had higher importance. On the base of SAW results the neighborhoods of 21, 22 and 26 had the best condition among the all neighborhoods and the areas of 11, 24 and 2 indicated the lowest level.

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