On the Situation Analysis of the Essential Settlement Factors (Case Study: Rural Districts of Dezful County)

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

Anis Kakadezfuli ¹ , Masoud Safaeipour ² , Mohammad Ali Firouzi ³

1 - M.A. in Geography and Rural Planning, Shahid Chamran University, Ahwaz, Iran
2 - Associate Professor, Dep. of Geography and Urban Planning, faculty of Earth Sciences, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahwaz, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Dep. of Geography and Urban Planning, faculty of Earth Sciences, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahwaz, Iran

Received: 2016-11-17 Accepted : 2018-04-18 Published : 2018-08-23

Keywords: Development indices, Rural Housing, Rural District, Dezful County, county,

Abstract :

Village, as the oldest form of human settlements and rural areas is one of the oldest forms of human social life. The quality of its development and its infrastructure due to undesirable and focused planning of the past has created major issues in development of the country's villages. The various dimensions and structural complexity of this issue are of the main bottlenecks in the availability of a suitable model for distributing credits.  In order to solve the problems caused by regional imbalances, the first step is to identify and level the villages in terms of enjoying different fields. The objective of this study is to investigate the degree of progress of rural areas (rural districts) of Dezful county. This was a descriptive-analytical study. The information gathering method was based on library studies from the Population and Housing Census 2011. The population was rural districts of Dezful county. Indices were used in three parts: health-care, welfare-infrastructure, cultural-religious and has been analyzed using three models: SAW, TOPSIS and VIKOR. The results indicated that the topographic factor and the access factor to the county's center affected the level of development of rural district, so that the rural district where most of their small villages are located in plain areas and also had access to the county's center were more progressive.

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