نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 کارشناسی ارشد برنامه ریزی شهری، دانشکده هنر و معماری، دانشگاه کردستان، سنندج، ایران.
2 گروه معماری و شهرسازی، دانشگاه ملی مهارت، تهران، ایران.
3 پژوهشگر دکتری گروه مهندسی طراحی محیط زیست دانشگاه تهران، دانشکده محیط زیست، دانشگاه تهران، ایران
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
Urban livability has emerged as a critical framework for evaluating quality of life, particularly in informal settlements where spatial inequality, inadequate infrastructure, and institutional weakness profoundly shape residents’ everyday experiences. Despite extensive research on physical and environmental dimensions of livability, the social determinants of livability remain understudied in contexts characterized by social fragmentation, ethnic heterogeneity, and fragile governance. This study aims to explain the role of key social factors—security, satisfaction, social relations, housing quality, place attachment, and social capital—in shaping urban livability in Qaleh, an informal settlement in Chahardangeh City, Iran. A quantitative post-positivist design was adopted, and data were collected from 180 residents through a structured questionnaire. The sample size was determined using G-Power, and the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach using AMOS 24 was employed to analyze direct and indirect causal pathways. Reliability, validity, model fit, and bias-corrected bootstrap estimates (5000 iterations) were applied to ensure robustness. Findings reveal an unexpected pattern: security, satisfaction, and social relations—typically identified as positive drivers of livability—exert negative and significant effects in this settlement, indicating low perceived safety, institutional distrust, and weak social cohesion. In contrast, housing quality emerges as the only positive and significant factor. Place attachment and social capital show moderate mediating effects, and the total indirect effect (0.16) exceeds the direct effect (0.18), indicating that social factors influence livability primarily through psychological and relational pathways rather than direct structural effects. These results underline the complex interaction between physical deprivation, ethnic diversity, and weak governance in constraining the effectiveness of social determinants. The study contributes a comprehensive SEM-based explanatory model for understanding social foundations of livability in informal settlements and offers policy insights for improving local housing conditions, strengthening community trust, and enhancing participatory governance.
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