Urban resilience in coronavirus has become a major concern for cities these days. Iran also has not been safe from the destructive effects of this virus in social, economic, physical, governance and management dimensions. According to official statistics, hundreds of thousands of people in Iran have been infected with this virus, and tens of thousands have died so far. Therefore, to measure urban resilience to this pandemic, some criteria and sub-criteria were developed based on the authors' documentary and field studies, and their significance or weights were determined using an analytical-comparative research method using a questionnaire of paired or L-Saati comparisons from the viewpoint of experts in urban sciences and urban development using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) hierarchical analysis in EXPERT CHOICE software. Then, designing a questionnaire with a five-point Likert scale, the satisfaction of Tehran residents with the extracted criteria and sub-criteria was measured, and the correlation between the important criteria in each dimension was assessed using correlation tests in SPSS 16 software. According to the obtained results of AHP analysis and the scores of each sub-criterion, the weight of all criteria was normal. In the next stage, according to the pairwise correlation tests between the important criteria in each dimension from the viewpoint of urban science experts and Tehran residents, it was concluded that the reliability of the correlation between the criteria is 99%. In all the cases, the P-value or the same significance level was less than 0.05, which indicated the significance of the pairwise relations between the variables.
Citation: Elham Zabetian Targhi, Niusha Fardnava, Saba Saghafi. Urban development criteria with a focus on resilience to pandemics: A case study of coronavirus (Covid-19)[J]. Urban Resilience and Sustainability, 2023, 1(1): 66-85. doi: 10.3934/urs.2023005
Urban resilience in coronavirus has become a major concern for cities these days. Iran also has not been safe from the destructive effects of this virus in social, economic, physical, governance and management dimensions. According to official statistics, hundreds of thousands of people in Iran have been infected with this virus, and tens of thousands have died so far. Therefore, to measure urban resilience to this pandemic, some criteria and sub-criteria were developed based on the authors' documentary and field studies, and their significance or weights were determined using an analytical-comparative research method using a questionnaire of paired or L-Saati comparisons from the viewpoint of experts in urban sciences and urban development using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) hierarchical analysis in EXPERT CHOICE software. Then, designing a questionnaire with a five-point Likert scale, the satisfaction of Tehran residents with the extracted criteria and sub-criteria was measured, and the correlation between the important criteria in each dimension was assessed using correlation tests in SPSS 16 software. According to the obtained results of AHP analysis and the scores of each sub-criterion, the weight of all criteria was normal. In the next stage, according to the pairwise correlation tests between the important criteria in each dimension from the viewpoint of urban science experts and Tehran residents, it was concluded that the reliability of the correlation between the criteria is 99%. In all the cases, the P-value or the same significance level was less than 0.05, which indicated the significance of the pairwise relations between the variables.
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Elham Zabetian Targhi, Niusha Fardnava, Saba Saghafi. Urban development criteria with a focus on resilience to pandemics: A case study of coronavirus (Covid-19)[J]. Urban Resilience and Sustainability, 2023, 1(1): 66-85. doi: 10.3934/urs.2023005
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