The role of citizen participation in sustainable development of urban areas (case study: Qaemshahr city)
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2013, Vol 6, Issue 7
Abstract
Today, in our times, human participation has been considered as a key to develop communities. And new urban plannings, instead of theoretical and cognitive issues, are more likely leading to practical plannings, implementations and participations. The intention of this survey is, recognizing the methods and procedures of participation planning in order to use the most of people‘s participation ability to develop the urban areas, And also have a check at the rate of citizen’s partnership and their role in the development of Qaemshahr city. The main subject of this Research is the process of citizen’s partnership in permanent development of urban areas of Qaemshahr city.The statistical population for this research includes the caretaker of families in the urban areas of Qaemshahr city, and by Using the Morgan Table, we selected a sample consisting of 380 households. A questionnaire was distributed at the communities. The method of analyzing is descriptive analytic. And for analyzing data in this survey we used SPSS in which for descriptive statistics evaluation, we used one-dimensional table and charts and for inferential statistics, according to variable evaluation, we used one sample t-test statistic for hypothesis test. The findings of this research indicate that, the citizen participation has such an outstanding role that by changing the approach in the city and urban areas planning, it would lead to an urban sustainable development.
Authors and Affiliations
Seyeda Soheila Samiee Kashi| Master of Geography and Urban planning, Nour Branch, Islamic Azad University, Nour, Iran, sssamiee @yahoo.com, Gholamreza Janbaz Ghobadi| Assistant Professor of Geography Group, Nour Branch, Islamic Azad University, Nour, Iran, email: gghobadi@yahoo.com
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