Spatial analysis of urban services distribution with emphasis on the theory of spatial justice (Case study: Ardabil city)

Subject Areas : Architecture and urbanization

alireza jabari ¹ (PhD student Geography and urban planning, Department of Geography, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran)
Rasoul samadzadeh ² (Department of geography, human science faculty, Islamic Azad university, Ardabil, Iran)
yousef vasigh ³ (Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil Branch, Ardabil, Iran.)

Received: 2022-12-11 Accepted : 2023-02-07 Published : 2024-11-21

Keywords: Ardabil City, Spatial justice, Urban services, Vicor Model,

Abstract :

Introduction Nowadays, the observance of spatial justice has become more evident in the way of distribution of urban services. In such a way, no matter how much urban services have an unbalanced spatial distribution, it will be a diagram of injustice in the space and will divide the city into privileged and non-privileged levels, which, if not addressed, can lead to far more harmful results. have in the meantime, the most important criterion for analyzing the state of spatial justice in the city is to examine how urban services are distributed. The purpose of the present research is to analyze the spatial distribution of urban services in Ardabil city with an emphasis on the theory of spatial justice. The city of Ardabil as an example studied in this research, it seems that due to the rapid growth of the population and the formation of new neighborhoods and towns in the peripheral parts of the city, the distribution system of its services and facilities has fallen apart and caused inequality. It is among the residential areas of the city.Methodology The current research is descriptive-analytical in nature and practical in terms of purpose. In order to collect the data, the basic information of the comprehensive and detailed plan of Ardabil and the updated data of the municipality have been used. In the present research process, in order to determine the weight of 11 main indicators of the research, the opinions of 10 experts (by snowball method) and entropy method were used and in order to overlap the layers of the functions available in Arc GIS software, in the form of Vicor model. Geographical area of research The geographical territory of this research is the city of Ardabil and its 51 districts.Results and discussion Among the 11 general indicators of the research, the index of urban facilities and equipment is more important than other indicators. Also, the spatial results regarding the distribution of urban services in Ardabil indicate that the central areas of the city are highly privileged in terms of access to urban services, and the more the distance from the city center to the periphery, the level of prosperity becomes less and less and that the dispersion The distribution of urban services follows a cluster pattern.Conclusion The result is that urban services in Ardabil city are not distributed based on spatial justice.