Urban Sustainability
Ahad Nejad Ebrahimi; Nastaran Najdaghi
Abstract
There are some problems in the historic fabric that eclipse values of these sites in cities. Sustainable urban regeneration approach is the best approach to solve these problems. Due to the nature of this approach and the intervention platform, the role of education must be clarified in this process. ...
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There are some problems in the historic fabric that eclipse values of these sites in cities. Sustainable urban regeneration approach is the best approach to solve these problems. Due to the nature of this approach and the intervention platform, the role of education must be clarified in this process. This study was conducted with the aim to determine the effectiveness of education on urban regeneration. At first, the viewpoints of experts were collected by Delphi technique and then a consensus was reached on the positive impact of education on residents. Afterwards, the women living in Sang-e-Siah neighborhood were chosen as the statistical population to assess the viewpoints of residents. This study is an applied research employing the descriptive and analytical methods. The main objective is to elucidate the effectiveness of education for women living in the Sang-e-Siah neighborhood in Shiraz on sustainable urban regeneration. The main question is “How much effective is the education of the culture of citizenship, preservation of historic heritage, vocational skills, and environmental protection on successful implementation of urban regeneration plans?” Data was collected through questionnaire, interview, and field study. T-Test and one-way ANOVA were used to assess the factors’ effectiveness. The results show that there is a significant positive relationship between women education and sustainable urban regeneration. Women have selected as the target population because of their higher presence in the neighborhood during the day and their higher impact on the education of children. The data collected from the study population was used to clarify the effect of education on the implementation of urban regeneration plans. Experts’ opinions and the views of women living in the neighborhood were compared. According to experts’ opinions, educating residents is the most effective approach of education-oriented urban regeneration with such effective components as social, physical, environmental and economic factors. However, based on the views of women living in the neighborhood, the most effective factors on women education in order of importance are environmental, social, physical and economic factors. As the mean value of t statistic was more than 3 for all the four factors, it is concluded that the effect of women education on all the four factors is above average. Also, research findings indicate that differences in individual characteristics of respondents can change the impact of sustainable urban regeneration programs with age being the most effective factor. It is therefore suggested that educating residents will be set as the objective of sustainable urban regeneration plans as a pivotal element of urban planning. In addition, to develop the theoretical approach, it is suggested that residents’ education will be classified according to different age groups. Finally, it is recommended that the impact of education on urban regeneration process will be measured by determining the feedback from educated subjects.
