Measurement and evaluation of the resilience of the deteriorated urban fabrics to Environmental Hazards (case study: deteriorated urban fabrics of Karaj)

Nowadays, the problems and challenge of the deteriorated urban fabrics is one of the issues which leads citizens to face some problems. Also, due to the lack of appropriate urban infrastructure and the decline in the performance of these tissues in terms of physical, social, economic and institutional dimensions in dealing with hazards, it is one of the most important urban challenges. Therefore, in this research, the resilience of the deteriorated urban fabrics to environmental hazards was evaluated and measured. This research is an applied. furthermore, this research was carried out by using descriptive-analytical method with the aim of identifying indicators and factors affecting the resilience dimensions in the deteriorated urban fabrics of Karaj as well as providing a framework for measuring the resiliency dimensions in urban worn out tissues. The statistical population of the research is 100 university elites, experts and decision makers in the field of research. For data analysis, one-sample T-test, F test and path analysis were used by SPSS software. The result of research showed that the resilience dimensions in the deteriorated urban fabrics of Karaj have an average of 3.49, 3.23, 3.01, and 3.42 from the physical- environmental dimension, social dimension, institutional dimension, and economic dimension respectively, and there are less than the assumed mean (4). Hence, the deteriorated urban fabrics of Karaj is vulnerable to the resilience dimensions. Also, the results of the path analysis test showed that the physical dimension directly affects 0.523% of the deteriorated urban fabrics of Karaj.