Analysis and Assessment of Urban Social Sustainability in Nowshahr City

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Social sustainability is a concept that is largely in line with the dimensions of quality of life and Encompasses a wide range of concepts such as social development, social capital, participation, equity and belonging, a sense of security and ... . The social aspect is important because every thing and every event occurs within a social context. the objective of this study is identify and assess the social sustainability in Nowshahr. Research methodology, which is based descriptive - analysis method.  data collection based on secondary data analysis and the survey technic and descriptive and inferential statistics were used in data analysis.we are designed to test the validity of the measure was based on face and content validity, and for reliability analysis, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used, which the value obtained (0/9338 for all items), indicating that  reliability is adequate. Nowshahr in Mazandaran province is the study area. Statistical society of research includes people older than 20 years old in 2012, which is equal to 33,635 persons. the sample size is equal to 380 that was obtained according to Cochran formula. for higher quality samples was increased to 400. Research findings show that the most important component of social sustainability in Nowshahr are sense of place, solidarity and social cohesion, access to resources and services (social justice) and a sense of social security that In total, about 55% of the variance of latent (dependent) variable means social sustainability explained. between this  factors, The prime factors 15/99%, the second factor 16/6%, the third factor 12/9% and the fourth 9/65% of the variance explained. Assessment the social sustainability by making the cumulative index is indicated the mean scores for social sustainability in Noshahr is equal to 2/296 , which is less than the central theoretical research (3) and this shows Social Sustainability indicators are not very good in Nowshahr. the analyzes indicate that there is a significant relationship between social sustainability of citizens and the conditions of physical environment of the city / neighborhoods and mental well-being, economic conditions, occupancy of housing, residential land area, income level and gender.  On the other hand, there is any significant relationship between variables such as age, education, precedence of living, and migration with the level of social sustainability in Nowshahr.

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Geography and Environmental Sustainability
Volume 4, Issue 3 - Serial Number 12
November 2014
Pages 57-71

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