Feasibility Study of Intervention Urban Inefficient and Old Texture Using Analytic Network Process-Case study: Qom city (district No. 6)

During recent decades, the issue of regeneration of urban inefficient and old textures has become one of key issues in the field of urban development strategies. For this purpose, the managers and urban policy makers have used different measures including increase of building density, improvement and modernization of old textures, mass construction, etc. some of these policies are practiced in the form of direct interventions by urban management system in order to provide public services and facilities and or improvement of old tissues. Unfortunately, lack of considering the effective social, economic and physical parameters in an effective manner concerning the capacity of urban tissues for intervention from the practitioners and authorities of urban development affairs has led to emergence of some problems during execution of civil projects such as delay in execution time of projects, high costs and or social dissatisfactions. On this basis, the present study, tries to determine the intervention of the old and inefficient tissues of Qom city with the help of three main indicators: physical, economic and social indices to perform the measures more effectively. Of course, if all these criteria are followed together with their sub-criteria, so that some complications would emerge in decision making process. Therefore, in order to facilitate decision making process, we used analytic network process (ANP) for achieving the objectives of present study. Our findings revealed that out of 76 ha area of District 6 Qom City, 20.3 percent has low intervention-capability and 41.8 percent have medium intervention-capability. While 37.9 percent of this district area has high intervention-capability, which could be contributed to the existence of the vast arid lands within the texture.