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Titre : Towards sustainable development by new town planning : case study of Mazandaran Province of Iran

Auteur : Zahedi, Ali

Université de soutenance : Technische Universität Hamburg

Grade : Doktor 2019

Résumé partiel
The New Town planning concept was evaluated as an alternative solution for regulating imbalanced urban-rural growth in the Mazandaran province of Iran. The research was conducted in three main aspects. Firstly, local development through creation of small- scale enterprises with low-tech solutions was studied by analysing several small-scale businesses. Secondly, human well-being assessment was conducted in the Kandelous village by considering housing, earning and job, work-life balance, education, environmental quality, health, civic engagement and governance, personal security, social connections, happiness, and life satisfaction topics. Thirdly, the study area was assessed to identify suitable place for creating New Town settlement by using an integrated GIS-AHP technique that was followed by a validation step using high resolution Google Earth images and a field study survey. It was found that small-scale business with low-tech solutions can support a suitable quality of life for local people including a suitable work-life balance. However, this balance highly depends on management skills rather than size of business. In all studied cases, a strong link between business and social development was identified. In all described cases several socio-economic-environmental achievements were detected that are useful for application in other villages. The conducted human well-being assessment in the Kandelous village shows that the surveyed people are happy and satisfied with their life in the village. Moreover, we have detected high well-being status in different topics such as social connections, civic engagement, work- life balance, health, employment rate, and environmental quality. Thus, small-scale settlements can not only play a role in ecological functionality of the region but also can offer an attractive life for people. However, expectations of people about life have a key role in the life satisfaction of people.

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