An Analysis of the Relationship between Urban Space and Feeling Socially Secured in Tehran

In the process of qualitative and quantitative development, there were serious changes in the life of people in cities and particularly metropolises, and from this perspective, the real and mental world of citizens were seriously changed as well. One of these changes was in the security, so that people with different social and cultural background, have different assumptions of security and feeling secured. In this research, this assumption and its formation is explained. The theoretical framework of this research, is taken from theories of the two fields of feeling secured and urban spaces analysis. The method in this study is survey, and the information is gathered by questionnaire. The statistical population of this research is consisted of 670 citizens of Tehran, who were chosen and interviewed by multistage cluster sampling method. To determine the reliability, Cronbach alpha test, and for validity, the technique of known groups were used. The data was analyzed by SPSS. Results showed that the attitude toward security differed based on gender, region of residence, marital status and age of the respondents. Also there is a relationship between their region of residence and their attitude toward security. On the other hand, there is a meaningful relationship between belonging a neighborhood and attitude toward security; but there is nota meaningful relationship between the urban fabric variable and multiple forms of insecurity.