Analysis of the Residential Resilience of Inefficient Neighborhoods against Earthquakes (Case Study: Tehran Region 7)

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1 دانشیار جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی شهری
2 Postdoctoral researcher at Tarbiat Modares University
3 PhD student at Tarbiat Modares University
Abstract
The purpose of the research is to analyze and apply the physical resilience of housing in dilapidated urban textures in the neighborhoods of region 7 with 13 neighborhoods with an area of ​​1970383 square meters, as well as its impact on the sustainability of urban resources. The present research is an applied-developmental type and a descriptive-analytical method and evaluates the physical resilience of housing in the studied area with data from documentary studies available in the Housing and Urban Development Organization, the Center for Statistics and Municipality. Data have been extracted and categorized in terms of building skeleton, building age, and permeability, number of floors, material type, building quality, and particle size distribution in residential fabric. In order to evaluate and discover the pattern of regression tools, spatial autocorrelation method for weighting layers, spatial distribution analysis using Anselin local Morans autocorrelation method in GIS and Geoda software has been used at the levels of neighborhoods in region 7. The results indicate that despite the larger area of ​​the area being in the medium to non-resilient resilience range in terms of separation, the resilience spectrum in neighborhoods is facing different changes and impacts, and its geographical distribution is more evident in the eastern part of the region.

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