GEOGRAPHY AND TERRITORIAL SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT
Year:2014 | Volume:4 | Issue:13|Papers Count:10

Informal settlements have been as a consequence of the prominent characteristics of contemporary urbanization in developing countries, including Iran. Expansion of informal settlements, is considered as the serious challenges which this research is facing with about the various aspects of sustainable urban development, especially in developing countries. This unpleasant phenomenon, has been the result of the linear and authoritarian policies and the so-called top-down development programs in these countries, Which of urban poverty has fueled more than ever and to follow that, the necessity of changes in attitude has raised the issue of informal settlements. Many large-scale studies have been conducted to find solutions for this phenomenon, but before any action, the need is felt to identify the exact cause of this phenomenon. In many studies about this, improving land tenure security is deemed necessary for improving the living conditions of households. Currently, the security of tenure is far from their basic legal concepts, and are discussed in the social and psychological counseling. For data analysis methods, exploratory factor analysis, correlation and regression are used. This approach is based on four factors: the possibility of evacuation, the fear of evacuation, lack of support networks and household income levels, which formed the main variables. Furthermore, to evaluate the quality of housing, five physical parameters: Floor Area, materials, roof covering, facade materials, quality of construction and maintenance were considered. Method of study, is field study and a questionnaire was used to collect data. The results show that the security of tenure and housing quality are positively correlated, and lack of support networks is a key factor in reducing security of tenure.  

The aim of this paper is to analyze and evaluate the factors affecting on land and housing prices in zone 3 of Mashhad city. The research method used in this study was desprective- analytical method. The statistical population of the research includes the heads of household in zone 3 of Mashhad city. To determine the sample size of study, which was obtained over 362 cases, Cochran formula was used. The research tools included two questionnaires; one related to the heads of households and the other one was related to real estate agencies. To analyse and display data, Arc GIS, SPSS and Excel softwares were used. First, the grad of each area, in terms of economical and social development of inhabitants, was obtained using Moris model, and then, mean comparison of economic and social development of inhabitants with land and housing prices was performed using an analysis of variance (ANOVA) at the level of 99%. Pearson correlation was used to analyze the relationships between each of these factors with land and housing price; so that its results indicate a direct and positive relationship between these factors and prices of land and housing. The effectiveness of each one of independent variables (factors affecting land and housing price) on dependent variable (its price) was analysed using linear regression with Stepwise method. Of the factors studied, the variables related to economic development of inhabitants with Beta (0.36), social development (0.38) and the area of land plots (-0.36) were identified as the most important factors that influence land and housing prices in this area of the city.

In the early years of the Islamic Revolution and the discourse of justice in order to remove deprivation from the settlement areas of the country, the development of villages was seriously considered by the governorates and programmers, So that through the formation of institutions such as Construction Jihad and Ministry of Housing, a great deal of projects and plans were prepared and implemented to improve the life of villagers . In this respect, "facilitating and improving" plans or the same Hadi plans were the most important programs which have been performed for improving the economic, social situation and physical-spatial organization of rural settlements up to now. This research was performed by analytical –descriptive method, the aim of this research is measuring and assessment of the degree and level of realization of different social and economic aspects of performing Hadi plans in Kenare village of the central part of Marvdasht township. The data were gathered through library and field methods and with respect to the statistical society of 410 households, 90 head man of the families were selected as sample.Descriptive and presumption statistical methods including single-double variable test , Likert spectrum measurement and Wilcoxon signed rank test have been used. The research results shows that a correlation coefficient of r=0.017exists between Hadi plan variables and social changes in the rural life of Kenare village, which indicates a significant relationship. Also the correlation coefficient between the variable of implementing Hadi plan and realization of economic aspects of the under study villagers' life is equal to r=0.024 which indicates a significant relationship. Therefore, implementing Hadi plans in Kenare villages was successful for meeting the economicalsocial objectives in view of environmental improvement and villagers' life and could provide the relative satisfaction of rural habitats. So that, the assumption of research based on Hadi plan in Kenare village and its positive effects on the social and Economic life of villagers' life is confirmed.

According to inevitable urban growth based on predictions made, this process will continue in the next decade and its resulting movements, will lead to the settlement and concentration of population in major cities. The purpose of this paper is to study t the effects of horizontal extension of the city on the social capital of citizens. In fact, it can be said that there is a relationship between the shape and form of urban extension and social factors. In order to collect information, library and field methods were used. Library and documentary methods were used for social equity part and the degree of citizens' of different districts to different types of services and sport , cultural, educational commercial ,park, green and sanitary spaces and health services.In other words. to measure the citizens' access to various services and facilities , the statistics of per capita in comprehensive project of Maraghe has been used. Other required information was used by the questionnaire method. social capital has five components including (social security and the environment-Register-Partnerships-social interaction-trust) .The questionnaire was designed based on the components of social capital. Number of samples with a population of 162,356 of Maraghe city based on statistical census of year 2001, according to Cochran formula, was 320 samples. Questionnaires were randomly distributed at the community level in order to gather people's opinions, and then the raw data obtained by SPSS software. Related variables such as urban extension, density, access, distance, and etc. as independent variables and variables related to social capital as dependent variables are considered. In order to evaluate and analyze social capital and the extent of its relationship with the extension of Maraghe using advanced statistical analysis such as correlation coefficient, multiple regression and factor analysis were used. The results show significant indicators of density by a factor of 0.026 and 0.699 beta has had the greatest impact on the components of social capital. Indexes of the distance from the city center, open space, the growth rate of household, the average duration of residence and family size, have an impact on the level of social capital respectively.

In this study, the geo-tourism capability of Hashtroud Zahak area has been studied. This area has a wide range of elements and geomorphic processes for attracting tourists interested in earth sciences. It is one of the most important historical centers of Azerbaijan from cultural and historical point of view. In this research, Hadžić model has been used. In this study, the value and importance of each geo tourism location is estimated by three indexes, including Scientific value, secondary values and Vulnerability of that geotourism location. For this purpose, a survey was performed from 25 tourists and 6 professionals. Results indicated that geological features associated with cultural heritage have the highest score among professionals and tourists in terms of scientific value. This indicate a wide range of geological and geomorphological forms in the study area. Natural elements and cultural heritage have the highest score among professionals and tourists in terms of secondary values. Vulnerability from expert's view is 3, that indicates relatively high vulnerability of the area. Finally investigation of three indexes in the final assessment of the value of geo tourism indicated that , this area has a good geo tourism value.

From the past times, rural areas as the basic communications have had a major role in the formation and flourishing of civilizations and decline of a great number of civilizations, is concerned to the destruction of villages and disregarding them as basic elements of production, and economic prosperity. At the present, one of the main elements of the production and environmental decline and inefficiency is poverty.So the study to identify poverty reasons and presenting solutions is essential. The present study analyzes the factors affecting the spatial distribution of poverty in rural areas, by emphasizing on the economic- social characteristics. This study is of applied one and from the view point of nature and method is of descriptive – analytical one.The method for collecting information is of library and field data collection (questionnaires, interviews) and descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics were applied for analyzing information.The present research population is the families of Mahmoudabad county , located in West Azarbaijan Shahindezh township. The county has 26 villages with population in 2011 Census with 8206 Population and 2154 Households. With respect to the spread of the under study area and for detailed and accurate study, 11 villages were selected by Kocharan modified formula and distributed between different population classes of the village through classification sampling method. The results show that the elements of assets, education and banking credit are the most important factors affecting the spatial distribution of poverty in the study area.

Today all efforts and attempts which the urban management are implemented for increasing the services, are to increase citizens' satisfaction. This purpose is a great ideal for municipalities and much of it will be achieved through the provision of services for citizens. The research aims is to gain a fairly accurate description of the status of the citizens' satisfaction about the services of Gorgan Municipality based on Kano model in most of the requirements including main requirements, functional and incentive. This research from objective point of view is an applied one and is a descriptive-surveying type which is made by field method. The statistical society is all citizens(343977 people) of Gorgan city that use municipality services. This research is based on Cochran's formula ona sample size of 384 people Who were randomly selected and studied. Findings suggest that the citizens had more satisfaction about the services of municipalities in respect of motivational needs (0.790) basic requirements (0.712) and political needs 0.436).

The aim of this paper is to determine the effects of development on the environment of Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari province by using degradation model and the possibility of more development of villages. Political divisions at the villages level (44 villages) was used as the working unit. Ecological vulnerability was measured by overlying map of slope, direction, elevation, annual average temperature , iso hyetal points, sensitive to erosion, faults distribution, soil depth, vegetation cover, forest reserves and protected areas and using threshold rule in ecology. 13 Degradation factors identified and their severity in each assessment unit was determined. Physiological population density was calculated by dividing the available population in each working unit into the area of cultivated lands in that unit. Then degradation coefficient in each unit calculated using Excel software. Finally, assessment units categorized in 6 classes in terms of degradation coefficient value. Also in terms of degradation severity, total area of province categorized in 3 classes for future development. Based on the results 64.4% of the province prone to more development, 31.9% has the capability for development depending on performing the rehabilitation operations and the rest 3.7% have a limited development capability.

The exact estimation of qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the natural phenomena requires a great deal of time and expense. Therefore, the interpolation procedures are used as a suitable solution in the estimation of the places which are uninformed to other researchers, and haven't been sampled yet. The reason for the choice of the mentioned procedures is that there are many maps derived from the Digital Elevation Model, and these maps have application in different analyses, and also they may have influence on the result of an analytic research, using different scales. If the main source which is Digital Elevation Model malfunctions, the whole project will have more errors. The main subject of this research is the choice of the most suitable procedure for the formation of the Digital Elevation Model which can present more real-life model from the natural condition of the earth, with high precision. The research purpose is the comparison of some of the procedures for the preparing of the Digital Elevation Model, including TIN (Triangulated Irregular Network), TOPOGRID, and also Digital Elevation Model derived from 3-dimensional satellite images. The mentioned procedures were performed on the data of the Noferest watershed in 40 kilometers of the east of Birjand city and their results have been compared precisely with each other and also with the data derived from the 2- frequency global location finder systems (DGPS). The results obtained from the comparison of the amounts of minimum and maximum differences and also the comparison of the RMSE amounts between the Digital Elevation Model and the DGPS data in 10 research zones, show that TIN procedure which has obtained the maximum amount of difference, 5 times with no minimum amount, has more errors, and the Digital Elevation Model of SRTM which has obtained the minimum amount of difference, 3 times with no maximum amount, has higher precision. In this procedure, the TOPOGRID and TOPOGRID INFORCE and also the Digital Model derived from the ASTER images, are placed in the subsequent ranks.

By recognizing the tectonic effects on fluvial systems , the value and importance of rivers in the study of tech tonic activities were recognized. The Study of stream channels and their displaced deposits by faulting at earthquake time, indicates the amount of displacement and also gives specia information about the evaluation of earth quake hazards in the future. The study area is located in the central Kopeh Dagh (Northern Khorasan) and NW Bojnurd. Kopeh Daghs faults are responsible for major destructive earthquakes in the 19th and 20th centuries and represent an important seismic hazard for this populous region of NE Iran. In this study, In order to study the morphotectonic of Soluklu basin, some of Geomorphic indices including drainage basin asymmetry factor index (AF) and stream length-gradient index, transverse topographic system (T), (SL), hypsometric curve (Hc) and hypsometric integral (Hi) were calculated.Fractures of the study area are extracted by using green, red and near infrared band of Aster image. Aim of this research is identifying tectonic activity and high hazarding areas using geomorphic indices. Calculating various indexes shows that tectonic activity in the study area is high, least amount of tectonic activity is related to the north side and the highest amount of tectonic activity is related to south side of Soluklu basin. Calculating various indexes shows that appropriate place for build and urban development is the upstream part and the most inappropriate area for build and urbanization is the downstream part.