Evaluating the Quality of Life Dimensions in Marginal Urban Communities to Take Advantage of Development Stimulus Projects, Case Study: Dizaj Town of Hamedan

It is crucial to improve the quality of life in marginalized areas, which are the result of unequal urban and regional development and include many problems and shortcomings in terms of inhabitants’ satisfaction of life. This study is aiming to utilize the existing capacities and capabilities of the region and to improve the quality of life in the town using development stimulus projects through descriptive- analytic investigation of quality of life’s current indicators in Dizaj town of Hamedan. The statistical society of the study includes all the population of Dizaj town and according to Morgan table 351 of them were selected for the sample. It has used literature review for the theoretical framework and multivariate regression method to evaluate the quality of life in the neighborhood. In addition, Pearson correlation coefficient has been used to measure the correlation between quality of life factors by using Microsoft Excel and IBM SPSS softwares. The results showed that the desirability status of the indicators in Dizaj town is in order of the quality of transport, physical, economic and social environment. Among indicators of the quality of life, the betterment of the social environment quality has the greatest necessity and share with the weight of 0.7. Other factors are effective in enriching the quality of life in the order of 0.5 (physical environment), 0.37 (transportation) and 0.35 (economic environment). As a result, the injection of the development stimulating projects with socio-cultural approach would be the most effective factor in improving the quality of neighborhood life in the area.