PMID- 38322859
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20240210
IS  - 2405-8440 (Print)
IS  - 2405-8440 (Electronic)
IS  - 2405-8440 (Linking)
VI  - 10
IP  - 3
DP  - 2024 Feb 15
TI  - Evaluating urban environmental quality using multi criteria decision making.
PG  - e24921
LID - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e24921 [doi]
LID - e24921
AB  - In the urban environment, the quality refers to the capacity that provides and 
      fulfills the material and spiritual needs of inhabitants. In order to improve the 
      quality of urban life and standard of living for their citizens, planners and 
      managers strive to raise Urban Environmental Quality. The objective of this study 
      is to evaluate the quality of urban environment through the spatial analysis of a 
      multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method utilizing CRITIC. This research is 
      conducted in district 4 and district 2 of the Tabriz Metropolis Municipality. In 
      order to determine the quality of an urban environment, air pollution, vegetation 
      coverage, land surface temperature, production of waste, population density, 
      noise pollution, health care per capita, green spaces per capita, recreational 
      spaces per capita, and distance from fault lines are used. After evaluating and 
      producing environmental quality maps in two separate districts, 10 indicators 
      were tested for significance and a comparative evaluation of two districts was 
      conducted in order to determine which district was in better condition based on a 
      statistical analysis of the T-test results. In accordance with the CRITIC method, 
      there are significant differences between averages of waste production, 
      population density, noise pollution, distance from fault lines, Land Surface 
      Temperature, Normalized difference vegetation index, and distance from fault 
      lines between the two districts. It appears that recreational space, air 
      pollution, health care per capita, and green space per capita are not 
      meaningfully different on averages. The preparation of environmental quality maps 
      reveals the importance of meaningful indicators at the neighborhood level in two 
      urban districts. In both districts by strengthening the continuity of the 
      landscape through the development of ecological corridors and an increase in per 
      capita can contribute to the improvement of the quality of the urban environment.
CI  - (c) 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
FAU - Mahmoudzadeh, Hassan
AU  - Mahmoudzadeh H
AD  - Department of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
FAU - Abedini, Asghar
AU  - Abedini A
AD  - Urban Planning Department, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran.
FAU - Aram, Farshid
AU  - Aram F
AD  - Urban Planning Department, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran.
FAU - Mosavi, A
AU  - Mosavi A
AD  - John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Budapest, Hungary.
AD  - Ludovika University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20240128
PL  - England
TA  - Heliyon
JT  - Heliyon
JID - 101672560
PMC - PMC10845730
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Big Data
OT  - Soft computing
OT  - Spatial modeling
OT  - Urban development
OT  - Urban environment quality
COIS- The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or 
      personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in 
      this paper.
EDAT- 2024/02/07 06:43
MHDA- 2024/02/07 06:44
PMCR- 2024/01/28
CRDT- 2024/02/07 04:08
PHST- 2023/06/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2024/01/10 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2024/01/17 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2024/02/07 06:44 [medline]
PHST- 2024/02/07 06:43 [pubmed]
PHST- 2024/02/07 04:08 [entrez]
PHST- 2024/01/28 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S2405-8440(24)00952-6 [pii]
AID - e24921 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e24921 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Heliyon. 2024 Jan 28;10(3):e24921. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e24921. 
      eCollection 2024 Feb 15.