Conceptual Relationship Between Social Capital and Quality of Life in Urban Environments (Case Study: Pardis New Town)

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1 Lecturer at Qazvin Imam Khomeini University

2 M.A of Urban planning at Qazvin Imam Khomeini University

Abstract

Social capital is a relatively new concept in social sciences that quickly has found its position in other fields such as medicine, psychology, economics, politics, urban planning, etc. This concept is particularly associated with the quality of life. This relationship can be considered as a gateway of the concept of social capital to the urban planning. The essential point in this context is how to measure social capital and quality of life in cities and especially in the urban neighborhoods. This paper has attempted to provide a method to measure social capital and subjective quality of life of citizens and then examined the relationship between these concepts. For this purpose, Pardis new town has been selected as a sample. The overall results which are obtained by using the Pearson correlation coefficient, showed a significant and acceptable relationship between these two concepts in Pardis

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