Investigating the Role of Land use Planning for the Resilience of Urban Communities (Case study: Abkouh neighborhood in Mashhad)

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1 Professor of Human Geography and Planning, Faculty of Geography Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

2 Ph. D Student of Geography and Urban Planning, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Today, the resilience of cities and their neighborhoods in the face of crises and disasters is one of the principles that is usually ignored or considered of little importance in the urban development process. In the meantime, land use planning, as a key tool, can help optimize space and create sustainable and resilient communities. So that by creating diversity and flexibility in uses, appropriate neighborhoods, and designing public and green spaces in neighborhoods, resilience can be strengthened and their vulnerability to disasters reduced. For this purpose, the present research has been carried out in order to investigate the role of land use planning in Abkouh neighborhood of Mashhad city in order to make it resilient. In this study, with a quantitative-qualitative method, descriptive-analytical nature and based on a measurement framework, researcher-made questionnaires based on the Likert scale and using the Cochran formula were distributed among 385 residents of the Abkouh neighborhood, as well as among 20 experts and elites familiar with this neighborhood using the snowball method, and their output was analyzed using one-sample t-test, Pearson correlation test, and multiple regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that there is a significant, direct, and strong relationship between the components of land use planning in the Abkouh neighborhood (including social, economic, physical-infrastructural, and institutional) and its resilience, which indicates that the optimal land use pattern at the level of this neighborhood can be effective in promoting its resilience in practice. Also, according to the significance level and the standardized regression coefficient, the physical-infrastructural component (with a coefficient of 0.296) compared to other components, can have a greater effect on improving resilience at the level of Abkouh neighborhood of Mashhad. However, the land use planning of the neighborhood (its average being lower than 3) does not have the necessary resilience.

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  • Receive Date: 06 December 2024
  • Revise Date: 11 March 2025
  • Accept Date: 15 March 2025

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