Integrating Civil Defense Emergency Management of Cities(Case Study: District 10 of Tehran)

Subject Areas : Urban Design

Hedieh  Imani Alvecheh ¹ (Master of Urban Planning and Urban Design, Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Zahra Sadat Saeideh  Zarabadi ² (Assistant professor, Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Hamideh  Aghamahdi Sarraf ³ (Master Student of Urban Planning and Urban Design, Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2012-10-15 Accepted : 2013-02-25 Published : 2013-06-01

Keywords: Tehran, Civil defense, earthquake, Preventive measures, CDEM pattern,

Abstract :

Earthquake has always endangered cities. This article mainly focuses on the question “whether seismicdamages could be diminished through the presentation a preventive operational pattern dealing with physical and nonphysicalfeatures of civil defense”. Tehran, the most populous metropolis among Iranian cities is to the south of Alborz mountainrange, located on potentially dangerous fault- lines.By Civil Defense Emergency Management (CDEM) preventive guidelines in a part of district 10 of Tehran, within the Rayfault’s danger zone, it is recommended that the earthquake vulnerability zoning plot of the area be compiled and accordingly,operational solutions encompassing organizing open spaces, redistributing and re-allocating land uses, enhancing relocatingdisaster management centers to more commanding locations are offered to be implemented within the physical structureof the area. The IHWP method and the Raster Calculator tool in GIS have been used for compiling the zoning of earthquakevulnerability.