Economic Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of Urban Poverty in Ray City: A Case Study

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the economic dimension of the spatial distribution of urban poverty in the twentieth district of Tehran city. The current study is practical in terms of the goal and analytical-descriptive in those of the component method. In this research, urban poverty has been investigated by census data of 2019 in the form of a social dimension with 8 indicators. Weighing indicators of this study has been done by the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method. To present and analyze the urban poverty in the neighborhoods, the ARC-GIS software has been used. Eight indicators have been used to explore the economic dimension. The spatial representation of this dimension in the level of neighborhoods of Ray City depicted that in total and based on the available data for the economic dimension, there are five neighborhoods, i.e. 25%, which are in very high poverty (Sizdeh Aban, Shahid Beheshti, Alabin, Taqi-Abad, and Abbas-Abad); three of them, i.e. 15%, are in a high situation (Javanmard Qasab, Mansourieh, and Vali-Abad); six, that is to say, 30%, are in the medium level (Shahadat, Safaiyeh, Shahid Ghiori, Ibn Babawayh, Hashimabad, and Hamza Abad); three, that is, 15%, have a little poverty (Dillman, Firouzabadi, and Dolatabad), and eventually, two, i.e. 10%, have the better situation than the others.