Rahim Bardianamoradnejad; Esa Jokar sarhangi
Volume 17, Issue 44 , September 2013, , Pages 1-26
Abstract
This research tries to typify the urban centers which experienced a more unbalanced growth in the recent 40 years. The main approach of the present paper is analytical-genetic and is based on the data which have been collected from the statistical center of Iran. The cities have been classified in four ...
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This research tries to typify the urban centers which experienced a more unbalanced growth in the recent 40 years. The main approach of the present paper is analytical-genetic and is based on the data which have been collected from the statistical center of Iran. The cities have been classified in four groups between 1966 to 2006. The results revealed that these cities comprise about 70% of the urban population and had grown by number and share of population. There is a steady growth from 1966 to 1986 and it gradually decreases to the recent years. The main factors of urban population growth for the early centuries have been physical as it had a crucial role to the Iranian urban population distribution in the country, but in the recent decades the human factors such as economic and demographic policies impacted the growth and distribution of the urban population. Islamshahr with 12.91 % average growth had the highest level and the satellite cities of Tehran such as Qods, Melard, Qarchak and Pakdasht in the outskirt of Tehran place in other levels due to absorption of the overspill population of the capital. Some cities like Masjedsolaiman and Abadan experienced very low and negative growth
