TITLE:
Ranking the Satisfaction of Housing in Rural Settlements around Tehran Metropolitan, Iran
AUTHORS:
Naser Shafiei Sabet, Neginsadat Mirvahedi
KEYWORDS:
Ranking, Satisfaction, Rural Housing, Tehran Area
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.5 No.3,
July
24,
2017
ABSTRACT: One of the basic aspects of human welfare is living in a suitable house which is
satisfying and is in harmony with the conditions of natural environment, society,
culture, economy and the functional situation of the rural settlements.
So, lack of attention to this condition, demand and techniques of rural residents
in the policy making, planning house development in the process of rural
development, will lead to challenges and formation of negative conceptions
and reducing the satisfactory level of the rural residents from housing
category. In order to recognize satisfaction level from housing condition, the
present study intends to rank rural focuses on rural Settlements around Tehran
metropolitan based on their residents’ satisfaction rate of the house by
using VIKOR multi-criteria decision-making model. The research methodology
is descriptive-analytic on 400 families as random samples versus the size
of the households in 40 random sample villages from the total desert territory
villages in Tehran. The present study evaluates the components of rural residents’
satisfaction from housing based on 6 indexes of hygienic, economic, installation
and house internal components, physical, welfare, safety which are
evaluated in the format of 23 items. Within the process of the present study
after calculating the relative degree importance of each index is evaluated. The
results of the study show that Talebabad Village as one of the villages of this
territory owns the highest satisfaction level referred to: R = 0.822, S = 0.046, Q = 0.022 and Mahmoudabad Village owns the lowest satisfaction level in the
desert territory based on the indexes referred to: R = 0.585, S = 0.045, Q =
0.476.