Assessing and Evaluating the Resilience of the Pphysical-Spatial Structure of Urban Neighborhoods Against Earthquakes(Case Study: Minoodar Neighborhood of Qazvin)

A resilient city is a network of sustainable social, economic, cultural, political, psychological, and physical systems. The purpose of this study is to measure and evaluate the resilience of the physical spatial structure of the Minodar neighborhood against earthquake, and the research method is descriptive-analytical.

To measure the vulnerability of the Minodar neighborhood in terms of physical-spatial structure, the distribution of 15 questionnaires among urban and earthquake experts and the creation of information layers in GIS software have been used. To measure the resilience of the physical-spatial structure of Minodar neighborhood to reduce vulnerability to earthquakes, in addition to obtaining expert opinions, 320 questionnaires completed by residents have been cited. A regression test was used to analyze the research questions.

The results of this analysis indicate that in terms of form criteria, 23% of neighborhoods have a high vulnerability, 59% moderate vulnerability, and 18% of neighborhoods have a low vulnerability to earthquakes. In addition, in terms of activity benchmarks, 6% of the neighborhood area is highly vulnerable, 11% is moderately vulnerable and 83% of the neighborhood is slightly vulnerable to earthquakes. To measure the resilience of the physical-spatial structure of Minodar neighborhood to reduce vulnerability to earthquakes, in addition to obtaining expert opinions, 320 questionnaires completed by residents have been cited. A regression test was used to analyze the research questions.The findings of this study show that there is an indirect relationship between the components of resilience and vulnerability to earthquakes.

The results of this study show that there is an indirect relationship between the components of resilience and vulnerability. This relationship can be analyzed in such a way that in places where communication, reproducibility, flexibility, diversity, strength, and modulation are more in the physical-spatial structure of Minodar neighborhood, earthquake vulnerability decreases. Also, the variables "relevance", "reproducibility" and "flexibility" have a greater share in predicting the earthquake vulnerability variable.