Developing Small Cities by Promoting Village to Town and Its Effects on Quality of Life for the Local Residents

Autor/inn/en	Rezvani, Mohamad Reza; Mansourian, Hossain
Titel	Developing Small Cities by Promoting Village to Town and Its Effects on Quality of Life for the Local Residents
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 110 (2013) 1, S.147-170 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-011-9921-7
Schlagwörter	Quality of Life; Municipalities; Rural Areas; Rural Development; Rural Population; Social Indicators; Foreign Countries; Iran + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lebensqualität; Magistrat; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Entwicklung; Landbevölkerung; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Ausland
Abstract	In the past few years, developing small cities, by promoting villages to towns for instance, has been considered as one of the main policies for improving the Quality of Life(QoL) in the rural regions of Iran and with this aim in the last few decades, a large number of rural centers have been promoted to towns. The purpose of this research is to recognize the effects of promoting villages to towns on the improvement of the QoL of the locals by studying Subjective Indicators. The area of this research would be the towns of FIROUZABAD in the province of Lorestan and SAHEB in the province of Kurdistan which have been promoted from villages to towns in the past 10 years. The method of our study is descriptive-analytic and the required data was collected through controlled questionnaire. The results of the study indicate that in general, the promotion of villages to towns has led to significant improvement in the QoL in Firouzabad town and proportional improvement in the QoL in Saheb town. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10