Evaluating the indicators of urban life quality in old and new textures of Tabriz (Case study: Koch- e Bagh and Marzdaran)

Life quality is a concept to indicate the satisfaction of one’s life. It is criteria to indicate the satisfaction and dissatisfaction of people and groups about various aspects of life. Quality of urban life is one of the most important areas of urban studies in different countries. Thus, city as the habitat of urban human is in need of providing standards that briefly can be called quality of life standards. The aim of this study was to evaluate indexes of urban life quality in both new and old textures of Tabriz. Therefore a descriptive analytic method was used. Data was collected through library and survey research by the use of a questionnaire. The statistical population in this study was all the households who are living in the old and new alleys of Tabriz that through random sampling method and based on Cochran's relationship, 386 households were selected from old and new texture alleys namely (Koch-e Bagh) and (Marzdaran) respectively. Statistical methods of multiple T-test, Factor analysis and SPSS software were used to analyze the data and test the hypotheses. To test the hypotheses simple linear regression, independent t-test and Spearman correlation coefficient were used. The results of these tests based on social, environmental, economic and skeletal indexes for old and new texture alleys indicated that, the quality of skeletal components (including green spaces, housing and utilities), has less impact on increasing the overall level of quality of life in old texture alley of Tabriz. Also, in terms of environmental indicators (including environmental health), economic (including employment, income and transportation) and skeletal (including green spaces, housing and utilities) there is a significant difference between the studied regions of Tabriz city. In addition, there is a significant relationship between the level of social, economic, physical and environmental indicators and the quality of life in the new and old textures of Tabriz city.