Survey of access to urban services with emphasis on social justice (Case study: four areas of Ardabil)

Yazdani, Mohammad Hassan; Mohammadi, Chnour; Hashemi Masoomabad, Reza

doi:10.22054/qjsd.2021.52044.1988

Survey of access to urban services with emphasis on social justice (Case study: four areas of Ardabil)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

mohammad hassan yazdani ¹

chnour mohammadi ²

Reza Hashemi Masoomabad ³

¹ Department of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardebil, Iran

² Ph.D. student, Geography and Urban Planning, University Of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran

³ Ph.D. student, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, University Of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22054/qjsd.2021.52044.1988

Abstract

Achieving social justice in the distribution of urban services is one of the important goals of urban planners in order to fairly allocate social costs and equalize the use of local capacities for the welfare and social development of citizens. The aim of this study is to analyze and evaluate the spatial distribution of urban public services using health-treatment, cultural-religious services index and urban facilities and equipment in the four districts of Ardabil with the approach of social justice. Data and information collection has been done using documentary, library and field methods. To analyze the data and information, Shannon's entropy technique was used to determine the coefficient of importance and in order to determine the extent of having a 6-ARAS model, Pearson correlation test was used to investigate the relationship between population and status. . According to the assessment made with the ARAS model, it was determined that in the health and medical services of region one, the privileged regions are deprived of regions two and three and the fourth region is deprived, in the cultural-religious services of region one, the regions are deprived. And three semi-privileged regions of region two are deprived, in the services of urban facilities and equipment of region one have privileges, regions three and two have semi-privileged and "region four deprived" and in total the service indicators of region one

Keywords

Urban services

social justice

Welfare and Social Development

Ardabil city

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