Safe City

Safe City

Assessment of the Level of Resiliency in Urmia City

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Omid Mobaraki 1
Marziyeh Esmaeilpour 2
Amir Madroomi 3
1 Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Maragheh. Maragheh.Iran
2 Assistant Professor of Geography of the University of Maragheh
3 M.A of Geography and Urban Planning of the University of Maragheh
10.22034/ispdrc.2022.702211
Abstract
Urbanization is one of the most prominent features of the world today, and most of the world's population
resides in cities. Most towns and settlements are located in places that are exposed to various natural
hazards or man-made disasters due to the interference and advancement of human technology which is a
major challenge in achieving the sustainable development of urban communities. An attitude that has
been present in urban planning and crisis management in dealing with accidents has been coping attitudes
and reducing vulnerability. At present, the approach to upgrade is a new perspective that emphasizes the
reduction of vulnerability and a resilient view to increasing the resilience and flexibility of cities against
natural and man-made disasters. The type of applied research and its method is descriptive-analytical. To
do research, a questionnaire was used that was completed by 40 urban experts. The results show that the
Urmia city is relatively favorable in terms of social and infrastructural exposure, but in terms of
institutional-managerial, economic, and physical-environmental vibrations, it is not desirable. In general,
the overall viability of Urmia city is less than optimal for experts, so that the calculated value of the
overall vibration of Urmia city is 2.94 below the baseline (3). In the end, according to the stepwise
regression test, among the components of the urban vibrancy of Urmia, the social index had the most
effect on the urbanization of Urmia, and the infrastructure index had the least effect. 
Keywords
Natural hazards
Man-made disasters
Sustainable development
Resilient
Urmia
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