Urban Planning
Abolfazl Ghanbari; Mohammad Abbaszadeh; Samira Hashemiamin
Abstract
The growth of urban tourism in different parts of the world and Iran has satisfied part of leisure activity and need of citizens. Therefore, it is an important part of urban management planning. Understanding tourist behavior can help planning and performance, increasing procedure of urban tourism. One ...
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The growth of urban tourism in different parts of the world and Iran has satisfied part of leisure activity and need of citizens. Therefore, it is an important part of urban management planning. Understanding tourist behavior can help planning and performance, increasing procedure of urban tourism. One of the important factors affecting of tourist behavior is tourist satisfaction that is rooted in the destination image, tourist attitude and tourist motivation. In this research using structural equation modeling relationships between variables in zones 2 and 8 of Tabriz during summer of 2015 is reviewed and paths are tested. AMOS and SPSS software is used in this research. This research is applied and analyzing and questionnaires are used for data collection. Cochran method is used for sample size determination and Chronbach’s alpha has tested the validity and reliability testing of the questionnaire. Results showed that destination image, tourist attitude and motivation have a significant effect on their satisfaction and tourist satisfaction significantly influences on their future behavior. The path coefficient of tourist attitude on tourist satisfaction is 0.599 and is more than twice of the destination image and tourist motivation effect on satisfaction. Effect of the destination image is 0.314 and more than an effect of tourist motivation on tourist satisfaction. Tourist satisfaction has considerable effect on their future behavior with a path coefficientof 1.222.
Urban Planning
Rasool Ghorbani; Mohammadreza Pourmohammadi; Hasan Mahmoudzadeh
Volume 20, Issue 56 , August 2016, , Pages 219-238
Abstract
Tabriz metropolitan expansion has caused a large valuable land to go under construction. Therefor, this applied and experimental research was done to achieve goal investigation urban sprawl and land use changes in Tabriz metropolitan using multi temporal satellite images in 27 years period by object-oriented ...
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Tabriz metropolitan expansion has caused a large valuable land to go under construction. Therefor, this applied and experimental research was done to achieve goal investigation urban sprawl and land use changes in Tabriz metropolitan using multi temporal satellite images in 27 years period by object-oriented classification technique. This paper also based on historical and causal methodology evaluated spatial development of Tabriz metropolitan in 1984-2011 using multi temporal Landsat 5 and 7 images that obtained from U.S. Geological Survey organization and object oriented image processing techniques. The Results showed that the area of Tabriz metropolitan changed from 7220.34 hectares in 1984 to 22346.82 hectares in 2011. Considerable area of the recent development is located on agricultural and garden land that decreased 6470 hectares of mentioned land use needs management of urban future growth using mass building production, high-rise building production policies(compact city), using Bare land in the urban(infill development), urban development directed in other direction of agricultural land.
