Exploring the Perception of Children Living in Old and Distressed Neighborhoods about the Ideal Neighborhood; Case Study: Hesarak’e Bala Neighborhood in Karaj

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Urban Planning and Development Research Group, Academic Centre for Education, Culture and Research (ACECR), Alborz, Iran

2 Department of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology, University of Rehabilitation Sciences and Social Health

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Children are an important group of residents in urban neighborhoods whose feelings and views about their neighborhood and its quantitative and qualitative characteristics have a great impact on their individual and social development. Therefore, paying attention to their demands in designing and organizing urban neighborhoods, especially in old and dilapidated neighborhoods that do not have good quality, is of considerable importance and necessity. So, the present cross-sectional study with a mixed method and focusing on the Hesarak Bala neighborhood located in the dilapidated area of Karaj, tries to examine and evaluate the views of fourth to sixth grade children regarding (1) their level of interest in their neighborhood (collecting data using interview and analyzing it with a statistical mechanism) as well as (2) their visual and written perspectives on their ideal neighborhood (based on their drawings and its analysis thorough an interpretive mechanism). In this regard, 134 children participated in the first part and 28 children in the second part. The findings in the first place indicate the lack of children’s interest in their current neighborhood and the significant relationship between this issue and their gender and age, and in the second place show the importance of various natural and artificial elements in their image and visualization of the ideal neighborhood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .

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Art of Green Management
Volume 1, Issue 4
March 2023
Pages 41-55

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