فهرست مطالب mehri shahzeidi

Neighborhood identity can be affected by two types of factors: Physical and non-physical (social) factors. Each of these factors have their nique impact on the identity of a place or a neighborhood. Understanding the relationship between factors and their effect size might lead to a more effective planning in order to improve neighborhood identity. The main goal of this research is providing profound perception of physical and social factors effects on neighborhood identity. However, it is not possible to put all factors in a research. So, we have selected critical factors through field work, which includes neighbors’ relationship and security as social factors and neighborhood landscape, safety, and accessibility as physical factors. This research is based on a quantitative analysis of 100 questioners by using SmartPLS software. Sample size was determined by employing a Cochran formula. It emerges that, all factors havesignificant effect on neighborhood identity except for safety.

According to the ideologues of the Iranian society, the social participation is one of the most important and influential problem in the development of Iran. If the first step in institutionalizing participation is to practice, we must accept that children are the best group that can practice and spread participation culture in the family and community. Therefore, this study has deal with the issue of children's participation and in action research process has examined the children's participatory / non-participatory actions. The framework of participation is Sanbolestan neighborhood in Esfahan and the selected field for participation is the environment of the neighborhood. The data of this study were obtained in the framework of the action research method through observation and interview with 14 girls during 8 participatory activities and were analyzed through the thematic analysis method. Findings indicate that these children in the three stages of entering, performing, and completing participatory activities tend to be in a group but act individually. Researchers have called these situation as "non-participatory collectivism." Lack of meaningful participation for children, lack of participatory patterns at home and school, strong gender boundaries in families, and inability to appreciate are some of the reasons why children cannot perform well in a participatory activity. Of course, the findings of this study, which have been obtained during more than a year of working with children, show that the continuation of participation decrease many obstacles of participatory solutions such as insistence on familiarity, irresponsibility, inability to evaluate the share and etc.

Urban tourism is one of the most prevalent and lucrative types of tourism. Enjoying great cultural and historical potentials, Isfahan could be regarded as one of main destinations for urban tourism in Iran. However, while its development in terms of tourism has been defined in some legally binding documents such as "Isfahan’s 1404 Development Strategic Document" and "Isfahan Province Development Document", it has failed to be developed ideally in that regard. This study, therefore, set out to identify the most significant problems hindering the development of tourism in Isfahan. The data of this qualitative research were collected via 26 semi-structured interviews whose size was determined based on saturation effect. The participants of the study were selected through purposive sampling from among the elites, officials, and the practitioners of the tourism industry. Analyzing the data through thematic analysis, one core problem and three axial problems were identified for the Isfahan’s tourism industry. The core problem was, according to the findings, that tourism did not have priority at the macro level, and the axial problems included “inefficient management and lack of well-defined plans”, “abstinence from investment”, and “inadequate human resources”. It was also found that conflicting ideas were the dominant problem in defining the main issues in tourism.