Evaluation of the deterioration and qualitative decline of urban spaces based on shrinkage Indicators (Case Study: Tabriz Metropolis)

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Authors

• Shapour Abbasi ¹
• Ali Panahi ²
• Hasan Ahmadzade ²

¹ Phd. Student, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.

² Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

10.30495/jupm.2022.28355.3922

Abstract

In recent years, imbalances in the spatial structure of the city, population shifts, changes in economic centers on the one hand and population decline, deterioration of buildings and facilities and the devaluation of residential land and commercial uses on the other hand, has caused the deterioration of environmental quality in some spaces and consequently urban shrinkage. Therefore, the study of urban spaces from the perspective of shrinkage and provide solutions to prevent imbalances in the spatial structure of the city is an inevitable necessity. In this regard, the present study has been written with the aim of examining the spaces of Tabriz metropolis from the perspective of shrinkage indicators. The research method in the present study is a combination of quantitative-qualitative approaches with applied purpose and analytical-exploratory nature, which in order to analyze the data, have been used statistics of different demographic, physical and economic dimensions, as well as the mean center and elliptical center deviation method. Findings indicate that changes in recent years in various demographic, physical and economic dimensions, polarizing the city in terms of development and formation of the new Tabriz in the east and the old Tabriz in the west of the city and the lack of safe and vibrant spaces to meet the needs Urbanization of the people and the gradual decline of the social status of the old (central) neighborhoods and the suburbs of the city and consequently has caused a decline in environmental quality and urban shrinkage in the central, western, northern and southern regions. Also, the results of the average center model and the standard deviation ellipse indicate that the economic and commercial centers of the city have expanded to the east of the city and its middle center is located in region 2 of the city.

Keywords

• Urban space
• urban deterioration
• urban shrinkage
• Tabriz metropolis

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