Evaluation and recognition of distressed areas for urban regeneration by using fuzzy AHP (Case Study: Sector 12 of Tehran )

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Zahra Alsadat Ardestani ¹
• Amirhossein Ebrahimi ²

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of urban planning, University of Kharazmi, Tehran, Iran.

² Master Graduate Regional planning, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran.

10.30495/jupm.2022.5509

Abstract

The urban regeneration is a conclusive policy including plans of improving urban builtform qualitatively with the goal of integrating cultural, social and economic. This reasearch aimed at evaluating distressed areas of sector 12 in Tehran and was performed in the form of space- place study and realized through implementation of an analytic model within three steps.The urban regeneration is a conclusive policy including plans of improving urban builtform qualitatively with the goal of integrating cultural, social and economic. This reasearch aimed at evaluating distressed areas of sector 12 in Tehran and was performed in the form of space- place study and realized through implementation of an analytic model within three stepsFirst, concepts, principles and requirements of regeneration were obtained through reviewing records, reference to scientific and reliable resources. Second, the criteria for regeneration were determined regarding an integrated regeneration in studied sector using expert survey. Third, in order to assess the distressed areas status for urban regeneration, Fuzzy AHP and GIS integrated model was used..The urban regeneration is a conclusive policy including plans of improving urban builtform qualitatively with the goal of integrating cultural, social and economic. This reasearch aimed at evaluating distressed areas of sector 12 in Tehran and was performed in the form of space- place study and realized through implementation of an analytic model within three stepsFirst, concepts, principles and requirements of regeneration were obtained through reviewing records, reference to scientific and reliable resources. Second, the criteria for regeneration were determined regarding an integrated regeneration in studied sector using expert survey. Third, in order to assess the distressed areas status for urban regeneration, Fuzzy AHP and GIS integrated model was used. The results indicated that 10.96% of total area is located in a fully desirable part for regeneration followed by other priorities; relatively desirable 15.38%, 31.68% desirable, relatively undesirable 23.28%, fully undesirable 18.7%. It’s required that planners and managers pay much more attention to regeneration of this texture.

Keywords

• Regeneration
• Distressed areas
• Fuzzy AHP
• GIS
• Sector 12 of Tehran

20.1001.1.22285229.1401.13.49.11.0

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