فهرست مطالب zohreh pirzadeh

Like many cities in the country, the city of Shirvan is facing issues that have made the social security of citizens and especially women a problem. In order to solve these issues, it is necessary to specifically identify the different aspects of security from the perspective of women and plan for its correction. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to know the situation of Shirvan city in terms of women's security indicators, to identify the most important factors that reduce women's security in this city and to provide suitable solutions.

The article is descriptive-analytical and practical in terms of purpose. The data was obtained by distributing a questionnaire among 384 women in Shirvan city. The results were analyzed using Spearman's correlation coefficient, exploratory factor analysis and Bonferroni's post hoc test in SPSS environment.

The average of seven dimensions is lower than 3. Examining the Spearman correlation coefficient shows that the relationship between quality of life and accessibility, behavioral and cultural-social dimension, urban management and urban furniture dimension, spatial and physical dimension has a medium and positive correlation and these relationships are significant. In the exploratory factor analysis, 15 factors were identified which are the basis of 59 research variables. The final 15 extracted factors were able to explain 65.82% of the variance of all research variables.

In general, the situation of women's security indicators in Shirvan city is not favorable. Also, physical factors and urban furniture are the most important factors in reducing women's security in the urban spaces of Shirvan, and it is necessary to pay special attention to urban managers in order to improve women's security in urban spaces. There are many unsafe spaces in the city of Shirvan, which the majority of the women in this city are aware of, and they pay special attention to these spaces from the city officials.

Cities are the focal point of many concerns that affect their sustainability. Urban livability is associated with quality of life, sustainability, quality of place and healthy communities.The livability of cities is highly influenced by the actions of urban management as the main custodian of city affairs, and the balance between these two sectors promotes urban livability.

The present study has a practical purpose and descriptive-analytical nature and has been done by quantitative method and by distributing a questionnaire among 384 citizens of the 6th and 9th districts of Mashhad metropoli. The collected data were evaluated and analyzed using SPSS software and t-test as well as structural equation modeling (SEM) with AMOS software.

Findings show that in the current situation, the livability dimension in Region 9 is at a desirable level with an average of 3.97.  The average dimensions of urban management in region 9, with an average of 3.14 shows a higher than average situation.  The average dimension of livability in region 6, equal to 3.034, the situation is above average and the dimensions of urban management equal to 2.40, which is undesirable. The results showed that in terms of how urban management measures affect livability, in region 6 the index of livability services (access, environment, housing, health) has a high impact and has a direct relationship in region 9 investment index with all five  Resilience index (access, environment, housing, health care, security) has a strong impact and a direct relationship.

There is a need to promote the current situation of both urban management indexes and livability measures in Mashhad. Results also show that urban management can affect many of livability measures and therefore requires a careful considerations.