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
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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