The role of urban network in urban sustainable development of mazandaran province

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

ali sheikhazami ¹ , Assadollah Divsalar ²

1 - Departman of Geography, Payamnoor University, Tehran. Iran
2 - استادیار گروه جغرافیا دانشگاه پیام نور واحد ساری، مازندران، ایران

Received: 2015-02-21 Accepted : 2015-12-16 Published : 2015-11-22

Keywords: development, Economic Threshold, Mazandaran, Urban Sustainable Development, urban network,

Abstract :

Today, development is a concern for many countries, and the development is more satisfying of people's lives situation. Study of urban networks gives people an awareness of how in certain geographical areas to overcome on barriers of communication and exchange and Economic machine its regions how and to use of which data applied. And due to the role of existing cities in the network, the complex relationships between them in the area how interact and to order, this causes the system to be satisfied with their life. The research method in this study “descriptive - analytic “is. Thus, of break- point model are used to determine the province's urban network based on economic thresholds or boundaries of the principal cities in the area, and then using the composite index of development, sustainable urban development in areas of the province (or city's) network has been set under the main cities. In this study, a library and cartographic methods used to collect data. Statistical community of the research is 51 city of Mazandaran provinces and especially 21 city of the district center of the province. Some results obtained in this study are as follows: Mazandaran province have not single urban network (cross-sector network in the East and a linear network in the West), Disparities in rates of sustainable urban development in the province prevails, Almost "towns urban network of linear in the level of development high and cities urban network of sectoral in the level of development down is located,Regions of deprived and under development of the province have high percentage of urbanization .Due to the break-point of the centers of districts of The City of Surrey, urban network of province  through Timely and equitable transfer of the flow (in the linear network) Led development and the suction flow untimely and colonial (in the sector network) is caused underdevelopment and exclusion in cities and etc.  

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