The Role of Smart Governance in Enhancing Social Resilience in Urban Areas: A Case Study of Mashhad

Document Type : Scientific-Research

Authors

Jalal Biooki ¹

katayoon alizadeh ²

Hamid Jafari ²

¹ Ph.D. Student in Geography and urban planning, Department of Geography, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran

² Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22067/jgusd.2024.87743.1415

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Today, smart approaches in urban planning have put sustainable and effective solutions in front of policy makers and urban planners to face urban challenges and risks. Meanwhile, smart urban governance is an effective and innovative approach to realize smart and participatory urban management to face urban challenges and make cities resilient and increase social resilience as one of the basic foundations of realizing urban resilience. In this regard, the present research with practical goal setting and "descriptive-analytical" method has tried to study the role of smart governance in the realization of social resilience in urban areas 1, 4 and 10 (as representative of inferior, middle and prosperous areas). ‌Shahri) in the city of Mashhad to be analyzed. In this regard, survey method and questionnaire tool were used to collect data. The sample size is 384 residents of sample areas in Mashhad city, who were selected by stratified sampling method with relative allocation. For data analysis, SPSS software and sample T-Tech test and MEREC multi-criteria decision-making model were used, as well as structural equation modeling in the form of PLS software. The obtained results showed that the role of smart governance in realizing social resilience in areas 1, 4 and 10 of Mashhad shows a positive and meaningful relationship. The results of this research can be useful and effective in informing policymakers and urban planners about the priorities of realizing smart urban governance and urban social resilience and the ways to improve and realize them in the city of Mashhad.

Keywords

Smart governance

social resilience

intelligent participation

social development planning

Mashhad city

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• urban planinnin

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