Planning of Urban Neighborhoods to Create Equal Opportunities with an Emphasis on the Elderly-Friendly City Approach (Case Example: Chele Khaneh Neighborhood of Rasht City)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Neda Salkhori Ghiyasvand 1
Maliheh Babakhani 2
1 Master’s Degree in Urban Planning, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran.
10.48311/udd.2026.112490.0
Abstract
Introduction: The elderly population has grown significantly in recent years. The purpose of this article is to plan the Chele Khaneh neighborhood of Rasht to create equal opportunities with an emphasis on the age-friendly city approach, which is one of the oldest neighborhoods of Rasht and is close to the cultural walkway of Rasht Municipality. First, the concepts related to the elderly and their needs and the indicators of an age-friendly city were examined .
Materials (Data) and methods: The method of collecting data is field and documentary, and smart pls and spss software were used to analyze the results. 110 questionnaires containing Likert-type questions were completed among the elderly living in the Chele Khaneh neighborhood.
Results and discussion: Chelleh Khaneh neighborhood scored 2.90 out of a maximum score of 4 in the age-friendly city index. Quantitative and qualitative results show that Chelleh Khaneh neighborhood is relatively above average and in a favorable situation. From the perspective of the elderly, the factor of citizen participation with an extracted variance of 0.489, quality of life with 0.381, and communication with 0.357 had the highest score from the respondents, and the rest of the factors had average and weak variances. Structural equation model analysis, according to the obtained coefficients of determination (R2), showed that the changes in the dependent variable depended on the changes in the independent variables of the research to a significant extent, and also with the positiveness of the participation index and the redundancy index and three values, 0.01, 0.25, and 0.36, which are introduced as weak, medium, and strong values ​​for GOF, and obtaining a value of 0.50 for GOF, the appropriate fit of the model is confirmed.
Keywords
Elderly
Planning
Elderly-Friendly city
Chele Khaneh Neighborhood
Subjects
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Urban Design Discourse
Volume 7, Issue 3
Summer 2026
Pages 79-94

  • Receive Date 24 September 2025
  • Revise Date 27 February 2026
  • Accept Date 09 April 2026
  • First Publish Date 09 April 2026
  • Publish Date 23 September 2026