Journal of Urban Studies on Space and Place

Abstract Urban land use is the central core of urban planning and the axis of sustainable urban development. Evaluating and analyzing urban land uses based on optimal ecological patterns and standards in urban communities is an undeniable necessity. This research aims to quantitatively assess and analyze the level of land use development in the current situation within Region 15 of Isfahan City from the perspective of a healthy city. Region 15 of Isfahan was annexed to the city of Isfahan in the year 2013 and differs in terms of land use development compared to other areas of the city.
In line with the objective, this research is both applied and descriptive-case study and analytical. Data collection utilized document analysis and questionnaires, while data analysis employed the standards of a healthy city, the Location Quotient (LQ) coefficient model, and a one-sample t-test. The research findings indicate that the development status of land uses in services such as commercial, educational, health, parks and green spaces, sports, cultural, and religious sectors within Region 15 of Isfahan, in comparison to the per capita benchmarks of healthy cities, the provincial standards of the Supreme Council of Urban Planning and Architecture, the proposed benchmarks of the Isfahan detailed plan revision, and the current overall benchmarks of Isfahan city is undesirable and inappropriate. Additionally, the t-test analysis reveals that the accessibility status concerning the indicators of a healthy city from the citizens' perspective is also unfavorable. These results suggest that Region 15 of Isfahan requires enhancement in development indicators concerning the basic urban life needs in land use.

Abstract With the increase in population and the number of cities in this century, especially in developing countries, the quality of life in cities has become an important issue in urban planning. The master plan of the city is one of the most important documents of urban development, which is approved in a costly process by local and national authorities. The current research seeks to identify the components of quality of life in the process of approving the third comprehensive plan for Mashhad City The process of approving this plan started in 2018 and finally it was announced in 2018. In order to study the plan approval documents, the content analysis method has been used. The data collection tool was documentary and the data analysis tool was in the form of inductive content analysis in MaxQda software. Based on the literature review, the quality of life components in the planning process has been classified into substantive and procedural dimensions. The Substantive dimension includes health, recreational, educational, technological infrastructures, natural environment, social environment, and economic environment are considered, and the procedural dimension includes qualitative considerations in planning approach, qualitative considerations in planning documents, qualitative considerations in plan implementation, planning organization, and urban plans hierarchy. As a result of the analysis of the project minutes, 1034 codes were identified and classified according to the conceptual model. According to the research findings, 81.23% of the identified codes were procedural and 18.76% were substantive. In the approval documents, the most attention was paid to the planning organization, but the technological infrastructure and quality of implementation were not addressed. At the local scale, the ratio of paying attention to the quality of life in urban planning has been almost double that of the national scale. Based on the findings of the research, it is suggested that the substantive aspects of the quality of life in the process of approving urban development plans, especially on a national scale, should be given special attention by the authorities.

Abstract Cities as living places create the most desirability on the quality of life of their residents when they meet their demands. These demands are in the form of realizing values such as landscape beauty, tranquility, diversity, etc. It finds meaning. If each of these values is not desirable in a person’s living environment, it will affect his perception and feeling of place and consequently on the level of satisfaction with the living environment. The present study analyzes the role of urban landscape components on the quality of urban environment and environmental behavior of karaj citizens in the form of indicators of identity and sense of belonging to place and balance and visual quality, somehow investigating the relationship between human behavioral reactions in relation to urban landscapes after engaging human senses in the environment. The required data were collected through library studies, field visits and checklist completion, and data analysis was performed using Pearson’s co-orum method, single-sample T-test and regression analysis. In regression analysis of three indices, urban landscape index was considered as dependent variable and other indicators were considered as independent variables. In regression analysis of three indices, urban landscape index was considered as dependent variable and other indicators were considered as independent variables. Based on the results of balance and visual quality and place belonging with impact coefficients of 0.453 and 0.192, respectively, balance and visual quality had the most effect on urban landscape. In the meantime, due to the high impact factor of balance index and visual quality on urban landscape and the fact that the authors of balance index and visual quality are mainly aesthetic features of city and neighborhood landscape It can play a significant role in improving the urban landscape of Karaj. In fact, urban environments that have a good quality in terms of the mentioned indicators, people’s interest in presence in urban space, sense of belonging in their place of residence and work, and action on environmental behaviors will be greater.

Abstract The rapid rate of development of cities has caused extensive changes in the land use pattern around cities, and these effects of city development and urbanization can be seen in developing countries as well as developed countries. In Iran, as a developing country, the growth rate has been very high, and following that, there have been extensive changes in the field of land changes. Change of users is inevitable but it can be managed. The process of land use changes and the recognition of the effective factors and its results can help to identify obstacles, problems, analyze and understand urban issues as best as possible and become a tool for managers and urban planners to predict the future growth and development of cities and be able to manage effectively and Look for opportunities for cities. One of the biggest and most challenging issues in recent years in Iran is the change of urban land use, which has many effects in cities, and if these changes are carried out in an uncontrolled and unsupervised manner, they will have irreparable effects. . The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of land use change on land use planning. Due to the spread of these changes, urban design and urban planning, using error tests and investigations, should always seek to adapt to the conditions that have arisen and are ahead, and they need changes and modernity of opinions in the previous standards. Therefore, he must always adapt to new conditions. It is for this reason that the discussion of flexible planning has been brought up and paid attention to in order to achieve better results than in the past. The most change of land use in cities is related to the change of use of agricultural lands and their conversion to urban uses, which causes more instability in cities, which is caused by the added value of the change of use in urban spaces. By having control tools, municipalities play a very effective role in preserving and maintaining existing natural lands, and by using their control tools, they can prevent land trading and changes in the use of natural lands to other uses.

Abstract Following the rapid growth and increasing expansion of cities in the last few decades, the issue of urban land use has attracted the attention of urban planners and has become the subject of numerous researches, the results of which indicate significant changes in the field of land use, also without land use planning. It is not possible to achieve an optimal pattern of living in cities. Today, urban land use planning deals with how to use and distribute and protect land, spatial and spatial organization of activities and functions, based on the wishes and needs of the urban community and specifies the types of land use. The spatial expansion of cities and the integration of villages and their surrounding lands is one of the important consequences of rapid urbanization, which has had a significant effect in regional capitals. The fair spatial distribution of facilities and resources among urban areas as one of the most important elements of a desirable urban life is one of the requirements for establishing a dynamic, coherent and progressive society, but economic inequality and poverty in the society cause the formation of informal settlements and land use changes, especially agricultural lands around cities. has been In this research, we have reviewed some of these researches