تقويم نوعية الحياة الحضرية في المدن-المجالات و المؤشرات : دراسة تحليلية مقارنة للأبعاد المكانية المتضادة

الملخص EN

The interest has been increased towards the issues of improving the quality of urban life that it has become a feature of contemporary urban communities for promoting their sustainable future.

This requires the integration of economic, social, environmental, physical and psychological domains for the purpose of ensuring a healthy and livable environment.

The ultimate aim of the research is to set and measure indicators to assess the quality of urban life in the city of Baghdad depending on the objective and subjective indicators.

That had been attained by determining the contrasted spatial (regional) dimensions of the city in order to recognize a formation and building the couple ends of real field of the urban life quality measurement scale in the city.

Furthermore, it is intended to identify indicators of relative importance in assessing the quality of urban life spatially by estimating the size of gaps among them, as essential indicators for the purpose of developing future plans for improving the quality of urban life.

Based on the foregoing, the two study areas, including Al-Muthanna district and part of Al-Sader district, were selected as two different models of urban characteristics for the purpose of ascertaining the quality of their current urban life in accordance with the domains and indicators that are studied in order to verify the current quality of urban life of the two areas by carrying out an analytic study on the responses levels observed by the researched domains and sub-indicators: (economic indicators, social indicators, Urban physical indicators, indicators of psychological-physical dimension “attachment to the place”, environmental indicators and variables of social status).

This has required the collection of information from secondary sources additionally to the conduct of field surveys so as to collect data from primary sources, with the design and preparation of a proposed questionnaire for evaluation purposes.

The research has adopted the descriptive analysis approach and the comparative quantitative analysis approach by the use of some appropriate methods and tools of statistical analysis in order to achieve its goals.

The research has reached to the identification of the indicators that have achieved significant differences in the urban life quality between the two study areas represented by the economic, social, environmental and urban physical indicators, while there was no significant difference in the indicators of the psychological-physical dimension “attachment to the place”.

Furthermore, a new measurement scale was created for measuring the QOUL by using the factor analysis, which concluded that there are two extracted factors to explain the variation of variables within Al-Muthanna district: (factor of psychological, economic and social indicators and factor of urban physical and environmental indicators); and three factors within Al-Sader district: (factor of economic and social status indicators, factor of psychological and social indicators, as well as factor of environmental and urban physical indicators).