On the Analysis of the Regional Development of Markazi Province Using Multi-Criteria Techniques to Achieve Balanced Development

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

جمیله Tavakoli niya ¹ , V. Goudarzi ² , R. Samadi ³

1 - Associate Professor, of Geography & Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2 - M.A in Geography & Urban Planning,Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Ph.D Student of Geography & Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2016-02-27 Accepted : 2017-08-21 Published : 2017-08-23

Keywords: development, Markazi province, regional planning, Multivariate Decision-Making Techniques,

Abstract :

Nowadays, unreasonable and unjust allocation of resources and facilities to certain areas and the deprivation of other areas of these facilities have caused regional inequalities. A topic's reflect can be viewed in the geographic landscape of cities and their heterogeneous growth in the cities of Iran can also be found. Hence, regional studies are proposed to create a balance and to form suitable and coherent spaces. The objective of regional studies is to find the abilities and capacity of each region for growth and development. The objective of regional studies is to find the abilities and capacity of each region for growth and development. The present study aimed to determine the degree of development of various economic, social and cultural sectors of city of the Markazi province and ranking them based on the development of descriptive-analytical method and using multivariate techniques decision making such as TOPSIS, SAW, VIKOR and Numerical Taxonomy. The results of the used techniques were compared with the Copland method. In this study, in order to identify and determine the degree of development of each county in the Markazi province, 53 indexes have been studied in the fields of health, medical, social, housing and construction, industry, affairs infrastructure and services and by applying the latest statistics and information in the Statistical Yearbooks. The findings of this study show the lack of homogeneous and balanced distribution of facilities and services in the counties of Markazi province. So, out of total 12 counties of Markazi province, the counties Arak, Saveh and Khomein and also, counties Ashtian, Khandab and Farahan had the first and the last grades, respectively. In general, the counties of Markazi provinces are not identical in terms of having the selected indicators and there are inequalities in the province.  

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