Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Mehdi Ghanavati ¹
• Abbas Maroofnezhad ²

¹ MSc Geography and Urban Planning Department, Mahshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mahshahr, Iran.

² Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Planning Department, Mahshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mahshahr, Iran

Abstract

Today, social inequalities and the lack of spatial justice are the main factors behind urban community crises. These inequalities, compounded with a lack of a coherent program for a growing role of resiliency among residents of various urban areas, have aggravated the above-mentioned crises. The goal of this study was then to evaluate the resiliency of urban neighborhoods using the spatial justice approach in Bandar-e Imam Khomeyni. The study fell under applied research and the methodology was survey-evaluative using a questionnaire. The statistical population of the study consisted of the residents of 23 neighborhoods of Bandar-e Imam Khomeyni, with the sample size being 429 people. To investigate the normality of the data, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test, to confirm the volume of the selected sample, the KMO index, and Bartlett’s Test, and to weigh and rank the variables, the fuzzy AHP technique was used. Using the fuzzy AHP technique for the following four indicators, findings showed that the economic indicator (weight of 0.2906), the infrastructure-physical indicator (weight of 0.2782), the environmental indicator (0.2245), and the social-institutional indicator (weight of 0.2066) ranked first to fourth, respectively. Also, the Phase One Neighborhood of Northern Mofatteh (score of 0.979) and the Sabbaghan Neighborhood (Camp B; score of 0.591) ranked first to last from the resiliency point of view, among the 23 neighborhoods of Bandar-e Imam Khomeyni.

Keywords

• Resiliency
• urban neighborhoods
• spatial justice
• fuzzy AHP technique
• Bandar-e Imam Khomeyni

Main Subjects

• Geography and Urban Planning