Recognition and Measurement of Factors that Aggravates Urban Poverty in the 8th District of Tehran, Iran

Buchani, Mohammed Hussain; Hassanzadeh, Mehrnoosh; Amirian, Hassan

doi:10.22054/qjsd.2025.75186.2513

Recognition and Measurement of Factors that Aggravates Urban Poverty in the 8th District of Tehran, Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Mohammed Hussain Buchani ¹

Mehrnoosh Hassanzadeh ²

hassan Amirian ³

¹ Lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tehran-South Azad University

² Lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Islamic Azad University of Tehran-South, Iran.

³ Graduate of Urban Design, Islamic Azad University, Tehran-South Branch

https://doi.org/10.22054/qjsd.2025.75186.2513

Abstract

The cities of the 21st century will undoubtedly face great challenges, one of the most important of which is the concentration of poverty in them. By using the views of experts in different fields who have been completely overseeing the current situation of Tehran regions in their specialized fields, as well as comparative studies, the dimensions and final components of the authors were presented, and by analyzing the questionnaires and conducting the necessary studies and calculations, the rate of urban poverty District 8 of Tehran was evaluated and measured in different dimensions and components. According to the obtained results, according to the statistical analysis and calculations and studies, the average value of urban poverty for the economic dimension is 3.02, the managerial dimension is 2.62, the structural-physical dimension is 2.51, the social dimension is 2.11, and the functional poverty dimension is 2.18. is. The average level of urban poverty in the 8th district of Tehran is also equal to 2.42 (lower than 3), which shows that experts believe that the 8th district of Tehran is not in a completely favorable situation in terms of urban poverty. According to the ranking of ANP, in the order of economic, managerial, physical, social and functional poverty, they have the highest rank of urban poverty in the 8th district of Tehran.

Keywords

"Urban poverty"

"Economic poverty"

"Management disturbance"

"Region 8 of Tehran"

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