School of Architecture and Urban Design, Art University of Isfahan, Hakimnezami Street, Isfahan, Iran.
School of Architecture and Environmental Design, Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak, Tehran, Iran.
J Urban Health. 2018 Apr;95(2):232-244. doi: 10.1007/s11524-017-0224-4.
Urban decay is the process by which a historical city center, or an old part of a city, falls into decrepitude and faces serious problems. Urban management, therefore, implements renewal mega projects with the goal of physical and functional revitalization, retrieval of socioeconomic capacities, and improving of quality of life of residents. Ignoring the complexities of these large-scale interventions in the old and historical urban fabrics may lead to undesirable consequences, including an additional decline of quality of life. Thus, the present paper aims to assess the impact of renewal mega projects on residents' subjective quality of life, in the historical religious district of the holy city of Mashhad (Samen District). A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of impact assessment, including questionnaires, semi-structured personal interviews, and direct observation, is used in this paper. The results yield that the Samen Renewal Project has significantly reduced the resident's subjective quality of life, due to its undesirable impacts on physical, socio-cultural, and economic environments.
城市衰败是指历史市中心或城市旧区逐渐衰落并面临严重问题的过程。因此，城市管理部门实施了更新大型项目，旨在实现物质和功能复兴、恢复社会经济能力以及提高居民的生活质量。忽视这些在旧城区和历史城区进行的大规模干预的复杂性，可能会导致不良后果，包括居民生活质量的进一步下降。因此，本文旨在评估更新大型项目对历史宗教区（马什哈德圣城的萨曼区）居民主观生活质量的影响。本文采用了定量和定性相结合的影响评估方法，包括问卷调查、半结构化个人访谈和直接观察。结果表明，由于萨曼更新项目对物质、社会文化和经济环境产生了不良影响，因此显著降低了居民的主观生活质量。
