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Volume 33, Issue 2 (2018)                   GeoRes 2018, 33(2): 145-157 | Back to browse issues page
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Received: 2018/02/5 | Accepted: 2018/08/25 | Published: 2018/09/17
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Safavi Y, Zarrabi A, Soheilipour M. Presentation a Model for Explaining the Economic, Social, Cultural and Political Dimensions of Development in the Creation Creative City, Case Study: Isfahan City. GeoRes 2018; 33 (2) :145-157
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Presentation a Model for Explaining the Economic, Social, Cultural and Political Dimensions of Development in the Creation Creative City, Case Study: Isfahan City
Authors Yahya Safavi1, Asghar Zarrabi2, Mehdi Soheilipour *3
1- Department of Political Geography, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran
2- Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran
3- Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of shakhespajouh, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran , Mehdisoheilipour@gmail.com
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Introduction and Background: During the evolution of urban life, what has taken a long way towards success and positive changes in the way of life in cities has been derived from innovative thought or evolutionary ingenuity. Today, the science of creativity in urban planning called creative city is one of the main factors for sustainable development and multilateral progress. Despite the progress of the last decade in urban management, the metropolis of Isfahan has had many problems including old industries, lack of creativity in changing the use of their unused spaces, traditional agriculture despite the water crisis, environmental pollution, lack of participation of elites in education, the existence of urban exhausted texture, and so on.
Aims: The purpose of this research is to measure development indicators on the creation and development of a creative city in the metropolis of Isfahan. Methodology: The research method is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive survey nature. Data gathering was field study by using a questionnaire. The sample size was 384 which is calculated by Cochran formula. The 5-degree Likert spectrum technique was used to measure the value of development indicators of the creative city. Also, a single-sample t-test was used to compare the mean of variables.
Conclusion: The results showed that in the economic indexes of the creative city, from the viewpoint of citizens, the highest and the lowest average are respectively "Improvement of business space by urban management" with a value of 3.99 and "Marketing of creative industries and branding" with a value of 3.83. In social indexes, the highest and the lowest mean are "Strengthening social institutions" with a value of 4.36 and "Human capital" with a value of 4.20. The highest and lowest mean of cultural indexes were identified as "Capital and cultural diversity" with a value of 4.30, and "Creative ideation" with a value of 3.96. Also, the highest and lowest mean of the indexes of the political dimensions of "Security and Stability" were 4.47 and "Tolerance" with 3.84.
Keywords:
Creative City, Sustainable Development, Isfahan Creativity Model
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