Structural analysis of fruit vendors in the economic and physical structure of the city (fruit trucks in Zanjan city)

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1 geography education department o f farhangian university

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Zanjan University, Zanjan

10.22034/gp.2025.64171.3317

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The urban scale of the informal economy as an economy is inevitably accepted in the economic structure. Despite creating challenges and urban issues caused by the weakness of the urban planning and management system, this economy has many capacities. The purpose of this research is to know the structure of this type of economy in the physical and economic system of the city so that it can be a guide for formulating the type of intervention and organizing them. The research method is an inductive-interpretive method based on the database model, which was conducted using interview and observation tools in a sample size of 75 fruit sellers in Zanjan city. The collected data were open, central and selective coding, and the categories and concepts and their repeatability coefficient were extracted. Finally, the paradigmatic model resulting from causal, contextual, mediating and strategic conditions was interpreted and its consequences were explained. The paradigmatic model resulting from the mentioned concepts, categories and conditions shows: fruit vendors have focused their activities on establishing a functional distance between residence and work and main roads. The location of the vendors is effective and the space in question has the role of a dock for equipment and work tools. Environmental health, traffic safety, space security, along with market control, family livelihood and organization have been the most important structural categories of freight sellers. The study of the consequent conditions in the paradigm model shows that abandonment, lack of attention of urban management, coercive action, weakness of urban development programs are the consequential obstacles of fruit vendors and the capacity to participate and organize the active consequences of fruit vendors in Zanjan city.

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هدف: مقیاس شهری اقتصاد غیررسمی به‌عنوان اقتصاد ناگزیر پذیرش شده در ساختار اقتصادی است. این اقتصاد باوجود ایجاد چالش‌ها و مسائل شهری ناشی از ضعف نظام برنامه‌ریزی و مدیریت شهری، دارای ظرفیت‌های بسیار متعددی است. هدف این پژوهش شناخت ساختار این نوع اقتصاد در نظام کالبدی و اقتصادی شهر است تا بتواند راهنمایی برای تدوین نوع مداخله و ساماندهی آنان باشد.

روش پژوهش:  پژوهش حاضر از نوع پژوهش‌های کیفی مبتنی بر روش استقرایی است که به شیوه پدیدارشناسانه به مطالعه زمینه بنیاد اثرات اقتصاد غیررسمی بارفروشان در ساختار اقتصادی و اجتماعی فضای شهر پرداخته است. گردآوری داده‌ها با استفاده از ابزار مصاحبه نیمه‌ساختاریافته و مشاهده در حجم نمونه 75 بارفروش میوه شهر زنجان بوده است. داده‌های گردآوری شده کدگذاری باز، محوری و انتخابی شده و مقوله‌ها و مفاهیم و ضریب تکرارپذیری آنان استخراج گردید. در نهایت مدل پارادایمی حاصل از شرایط علی، زمینه‌ای، میانجی و راهبردی تفسیر و پیامدهای حاصل از آن تبیین شد.

یافته ها: مدل پارادایمی حاصل از مفاهیم، مقوله هاو شرایط ذکر شده نشان می‌دهد: بارفروشان میوه تمرکز فعالیتی خود را معطوف به استقرار در فاصله کارکردی بین سکونت و کار و معابر اصلی نموده‌اند. استقرار در معابر اصلی، فضای بایر پیرامون (با امکان پارک حاشیه‌ای) در مکان گزینی بارفروشان اثرگذار بوده و فضای موردنظر نقش بارانداز برای وسایل، ابزار کار دارد. بهداشت محیط، ایمنی تردد، امنیت فضا در کنار کنترل بازار، معیشت خانواده و ساماندهی مهم‌ترین مقوله‌های ساختاری بارفروشان بوده است.

نتیجه گیری: مطالعه شرایط پیامدی در مدل پارادایمی نشان می‌دهد رهاشدگی، عدم توجه مدیریت شهری، برخورد قهری، ضعف برنامه‌ها توسعه شهری موانع پیامدی بارفروشان و ظرفیت تمایل به مشارکت و ساماندهی پیامدهای فعال بارفروشان میوه شهر زنجان می‌باشد.  

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