On the Analysis of the Role of Public Spaces in Improving the Vitality of Villagers (Case Study: Aleshtar County's Villages)

Today, the public spaces of villages need to provide facilities and equipment and services to the local people. Therefore, in these spaces, additional elements are needed to regulate rural life among these buildings, equipment such as home furnishing, the possibility of living and spending leisure time in the enclosed space between man, space and activity. Therefore, the objective of this study is to analyze the role of public spaces in improving the quality of vitality of villagers in the studied area. This study is applied research with descriptive-analytical method and for data collection, library and field methods (questionnaire and observation) were used. For data analysis, the tests (Regression, Friedman and Factor Analysis) were used. The research findings showed that the aesthetic, semantic-perceptual and functional-activity measures each ranked respectively 2.52, 1.79 and 0.69, respectively. Factor analysis findings indicated that the first factor, i.e., the perceptual image, and the sixth factor, i.e., social interactions, had the highest share and the lowest share in explaining the total variables. Also, the study of regression model indicated that the effective factors affecting the general spaces in increasing the quality of vitality of the villagers was 0.723, which indicated a significant and positive relationship between the factors of public spaces in improving the vitality of villagers among the villages of the studied area.