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Received: 2025/10/28 | Accepted: 2025/12/21 | Published: 2025/12/1
Received: 2025/10/28 | Accepted: 2025/12/21 | Published: 2025/12/1
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Sonbolestanian S, Tahmas Nezhad M. Role of Urban Services from the Perspective of Citizens in the Urban Prosperity Process of Isfahan Metropolis. GeoRes 2025; 40 (4) :371-379
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1- Department of Management, Faculty of Humanities, Dehaghan Campus (Deh.C.), Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
2- Tourism Research Center, Faculty of Humanities, Najafabad Campus (Na.C.), Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
2- Tourism Research Center, Faculty of Humanities, Najafabad Campus (Na.C.), Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
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Aims: This study aimed to evaluate the role of urban services in the urban prosperity process in the Isfahan metropolis and to identify the dimensions that have the greatest impact on promoting urban prosperity. In this regard, the relationship between the quality of urban services and the status of urban prosperity in different areas of the city was examined, and the key dimensions affecting prosperity were identified.
Methodology: The present study, conducted in 2025, employed a combined quantitative-qualitative approach among the citizens of the Isfahan metropolis. The sample size was estimated at 384 people using Cochran's formula. Sampling was done randomly and covered different urban areas. The data collection tool was a research-made questionnaire. The resulting data were entered into SPSS 22 and analyzed using structural equation modeling. Multivariate regression was used to examine the predictive role of urban service components on urban prosperity.
Findings: Urban services had a direct, positive, and significant effect on urban prosperity, and the dimensions of infrastructure, spatial justice, and governance had the greatest impact in explaining prosperity. Spatial inequality in access to services, weak critical infrastructure, limited citizen participation, and environmental challenges were the main obstacles to sustainable prosperity in Isfahan. Urban prosperity in Isfahan depended on the quality and justice in the provision of urban services.
Conclusion: Urban prosperity in Isfahan is multidimensional and unstable, and its promotion requires improving spatial justice, strengthening critical infrastructure, and developing participatory governance.
Methodology: The present study, conducted in 2025, employed a combined quantitative-qualitative approach among the citizens of the Isfahan metropolis. The sample size was estimated at 384 people using Cochran's formula. Sampling was done randomly and covered different urban areas. The data collection tool was a research-made questionnaire. The resulting data were entered into SPSS 22 and analyzed using structural equation modeling. Multivariate regression was used to examine the predictive role of urban service components on urban prosperity.
Findings: Urban services had a direct, positive, and significant effect on urban prosperity, and the dimensions of infrastructure, spatial justice, and governance had the greatest impact in explaining prosperity. Spatial inequality in access to services, weak critical infrastructure, limited citizen participation, and environmental challenges were the main obstacles to sustainable prosperity in Isfahan. Urban prosperity in Isfahan depended on the quality and justice in the provision of urban services.
Conclusion: Urban prosperity in Isfahan is multidimensional and unstable, and its promotion requires improving spatial justice, strengthening critical infrastructure, and developing participatory governance.