Geography and Human Relationships

Geography and Human Relationships

Structural relations model (SEM) architecture of rural business spaces Case example: District 7 of the Babylonian system

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 P.H.D Candidate, Department of Architectural, School of Architecture & Urbanism of Iran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, Iran.
2 (Corresponding Author) Associate Professor, Department of Architectural, School of Architecture & Urbanism of Iran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, Iran.
3 Associate Professor, Department of School of Architecture & Urbanism of Iran university of Science & Technology, Tehran, Iran.
4 Associate Professor, Department of Educational, Faculty of Humanities, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran.
10.22034/gahr.2025.517916.2453
Abstract
Given the increasing rural population and the need to raise the income level of residents, the development of rural businesses is an inevitable necessity. In previous research, 7 second-order factors and 21 First-Order factors were found as components, including 1-location and consistent proximity of production and display 2-principles of Business Architecture 3-tourism processing and sale of silk, wood and ... 4-the proximity of the housing to the living space 5-the substitution of the ecological and processing on the path .... At this point, the question is, what is the structural relationship model? The method of solidarity with the implementation of the survey, the statistical community of rural and tourism producers, the volume and tools of the sample 180 questionnaire package of the SPSS 20 and amos24 software path Analysis tool . Implementation steps 1-preparation of the initial model using the results of Factor Analysis 2-insertion of the model in the software environment 3 - trial and error until the initial model can be evaluated 4-correction of indicators and achievement of a desirable model 5 - analysis of the final model and its components. After inserting the model into Amos, a measurable initial model was achieved by removing some variables and changing relationships. The correction went so far that the evaluable model and the correction of its indicators became a desirable model. In this direction, 2 main factors and 8 sub-factors were removed or moved. Finally, after modifying the Model taken from the first and second order factor analysis, the final structural model of the research consisted of 5 factors of development and support of the village, the combination of living space and Indigenous tourism, priority sales processing, external architecture at the average time of scale and interior architecture of micro-scale indigenous equipment was determined.
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Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 03 July 2025

  • Receive Date 20 April 2025
  • Revise Date 01 July 2025
  • Accept Date 20 May 2025