Assessment and Analysis of Sociability and its dimensions in Urban Routes Based on the Role and Effect of the Quality of Man-made Environment (Case Study: Jomhuri Eslami Street, Mahabad)

Routes are dynamic urban spaces that are known as environments of social life. These layers of urban design beautify the cities as links between the private and public spheres. Thus, it appears imperative to heed environmental qualities and to systematize them for the purpose of attendance and interaction in social activities. This research is a descriptive-analytical method to evaluate sociability. Analyzing the effects of the quality of man-made environment on, the research was conducted in 2021. Besides documentary-research studies, field data were collected by distributing questionnaires. They were analyzed using SPSS and PLS in the form of T-Test and path analysis model. The findings in the form of T-Test displayed that space is associated with sociability, though its environmental quality is assessed at a moderate scale. Also, results of path analysis model with path coefficient and significance level of 0.000 exhibit a significant relationship between environmental quality and spatial sociability. So that about half of the changes in the sociability are predicted and interpreted by environmental quality with a coefficient of determination of 0.462. Factors such as inviting spaces, attracting different groups, order of visits, interactions and to some extent the possibility of gatherings, with an impact factor of 0.659, 0.457, 0.322, 0.318, and 0.142 respectively, at a significance level of less than 0.05, are substantially affected by environmental quality. It can be said that despite the relative environmental quality, the location and consequently easy access, as well as the lack of other sustainable and attractive urban spaces in Mahabad, has caused the study space to be considered sociable. At the same time, this sociability is seriously affected by environmental quality, therefore, organizing different dimensions of environmental quality provides a more social and sustainable environment.