Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Right to the City Components to Improve Sustainable Urban Spaces Quality for Children

The right to the city is based on all residents of the city enjoyment from the urban life opportunities. in particular, it seeks to support those groups that are designated as “special threat groups” in the laws and regulations. the children right to the city means that the public and social space and the general atmosphere of the city for the presence of children and interaction with the body of the city and other citizens of the city should be provided. moreover, alignment between sustainable principles and children’s rights clearly emphasizes on the need for paying attention to children in urban planning. the current research is developmental-applied research and to achieve the goals, a mixed research method has been used. in the qualitative part, the method of content analysis and grounded theory method were used together and nvivo software was applied to code the data. in the department of qualitative studies, the statistical community includes experts as well as university professors in the field of urban planning, and 32 people have been selected as the research sample using the snowball technique. in the quantitative part, based on the results of the interview and the conceptual model obtained from the qualitative studies, a questionnaire based on the 5-point likert scale was designed. in this section, the statistical population includes specialists and experts of urban planning as well as managers and decision makers in urban issues. to calculate the sample size, cochran’s formula was used, taking into account the error of 0.05, so 218 people was determined as the sample size. to analyze the results of the questionnaire and examine how the variables are related, spss statistical software, t-test and multivariate regression were used. based on the results of qualitative studies, a conceptual model of the components of the concept of the right to the city was presented in order to improve the quality of sustainable urban spaces for children. the results of quantitative studies demonstrate the relationships between the variables and their impact coefficient and ranking.