Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 assistant professor in kosar university of bojnord

2 university of tehran

3 Department of Human Geography and Planning, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

4 kosar university of bojnord

10.22034/jprd.2025.64074.1142

Abstract

With the increase in the population of the elderly and the ever-increasing expansion of the population of cities, the necessity of adapting urban development to the priorities of the elderly in order to participate as much as possible in this segment of the society is raised more than in the past. In order to achieve an elderly-friendly city, it is necessary to examine the current state of the city and inform it to the city managers in order to plan and formulate future design policies. For this purpose, there are various methods to check the current situation of the city,one of these location-oriented methods is the use of OWA method with GIS. In this research, age-friendliness by using 9 layers including:access to public transportation, urban green space, medical services, public libraries and sports centers along with the layers of air pollution, urban traffic, noise pollution and thermal pollution with the OWA method A survey was conducted in 49 neighborhoods of Bojnord city. The results showed that the development of Bojnord city from the point of view of urban geriatrics has not spread uniformly everywhere and the central part is better than the new parts of the city despite its older texture. Also, its central and eastern parts have better conditions than other parts of the city, and the southern part was shown to be very unsuitable. Based on this, Seyyed Jamal, Sardaran and Jajermi neighborhoods have been identified as three desirable neighborhoods, and Daneshgah, Ahmedabad and Malekesh neighborhoods have been identified as undesirable based on nine criteria. These results are highly consistent with the field visit and completion of the questionnaire along with processing the resulting data using the Copeland method. Therefore, it is suggested that while developing all neighborhoods, the southern, southwestern and eastern should be given more priority.

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با افزایش جمعیت سالمندان و گسترش روز­افزون جمعیت شهرها، لزوم مناسب­سازی توسعه­شهری با اولویت­های سالمندان به­منظور مشارکت هرچه بیشتر این قشر از جامعه بیش از گذشته مطرح می­شود. برای دستیابی به شهر سالمندپسند، بررسی وضعیت موجود شهر و اطلاع­رسانی آن به مدیران­شهری جهت برنامه­ریزی و تدوین خط­مشی طراحی­های آتی ضروری است. بررسی­ها نشان می­دهد روش­های مختلفی برای بررسی وضعیت موجود شهر وجود دارد که یکی از آن­ها استفاده از روش­های مکان-محور OWA همراه باGIS  است. در این پژوهش سالمندپسندی با بکارگیری 9 لایه از جمله: دسترسی به حمل­و نقل عمومی، فضای­سبز شهری، خدمات­درمانی، کتابخانه­های عمومی و مراکز ورزشی به همراه لایه­های آلودگی هوا، ترافیک شهری، آلودگی­صوتی و آلودگی­حرارتی با روش OWA سراسری در محله­های 49 گانه شهر بجنورد بررسی شد. نتایج نشان داد که توسعه شهر بجنورد از منظر سالمندپسندی شهری در همه جای شهر بصورت یکدست گسترش نیافته و بخش مرکزی با وجود بافت قدیمی­تر، وضعیت مطلوب­تری نسبت به بخش­های جدید شهر دارد. همچنین بخش­مرکزی و شرقی آن شرایط بهتری نسبت به دیگر قسمت­های شهر داشته و بخش جنوبی بسیار نامناسب ارزیابی گردید. براین اساس محله­های سیدجمال، سرداران و جاجرمی سه محله مطلوب و محله­های دانشگاه، احمدآباد و ملکش براساس معیارهای نه­گانه نامطلوب تشخیص داده شدند. این نتایج با بازدید میدانی و تکمیل پرسشنامه به همراه پردازش داده­های حاصل از آن به روش Copeland مطابقت بالایی دارد، لذا پیشنهاد می­گردد ضمن تقویت همه محله­های شهر، بخش­های جنوبی، جنوب­غربی و جنوب­شرقی شهر با اولویت بیشتری مورد بررسی و توجه شهر دوستدار سالمند قرار­گیرند. 

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