Study and analysis of the theory of the Right to the City and its role in the realization of good urban governance in the metropolis of Tabriz

MOQADDAM, Mohammad; Pourmohammadi, Mohammadreza; Roostaei, Shahrivar

doi:10.22034/jget.2024.159060

Study and analysis of the theory of the Right to the City and its role in the realization of good urban governance in the metropolis of Tabriz

Document Type : Original Article

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¹ East Azerbaijan Governorate

² Tabriz University

10.22034/jget.2024.159060

Abstract

The right to the city is a human right that includes the city belonging to all citizens and their participation in urban affairs. The right to a city is to ensure equal opportunities and the proper distribution of services and facilities that can play an effective two-way relationship with good urban governance.The present study was applied in terms of type of purpose and in terms of nature and descriptive-analytical method and library and field methods were used to collect data. The statistical population consists of citizens living in the metropolis of Tabriz, which according to the census of the Statistics Center in 2016 had a population of 1558693 people and 497898 households, which using the Cochran's formula, 337 citizens were selected as a sample. In the selection of citizens, people over 20 years of age were interviewed and cluster sampling method was used for sampling in ten metropolitan areas. Data were analyzed using one-sample t-test, mean, Kruskal-Wallis, geographical weight regression and path analysis. Indicators of the right to city theory at the level of Tabriz metropolis have various effects on the realization of good urban governance from the perspective of citizens. Thus, the indicators of acceptance of urban differences and contradictions with a value of 0.242 and freedom of activity in urban space with a value of 0.145 have had the greatest impact on the realization of good urban governance in the metropolis of Tabriz.

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