Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Masood Taghvaei ¹
• Asiyeh Hasaninezhad ²
• Khadijeh Talebi ³

¹ Geography and Urban Planning, University of Esfahan

² Geography and Rural Planning

³ Geography and Rural Planning, University of Esfahan

Abstract

Investigating and recognising the rural regions and analyzing their abilities and problems in the process of planning the rural development are of a great importance and nowadays being aware of the facilities and problems of ruralregion is considered necessary in rendering plans and programs for development. The determination and analysis of the level of the facilities of the rural regions in different fields using the  quantitative methods play on important role in this process. In the present article, using the models of centeral index and Pereston as well as 45 indexs in different fields (economy, social, health and medical and agriculture). We tried to determine and analyse the facility levels of the villages in Zanjan province.Environment facilities, adjacency and being near to the cities, centers and place for development, industrial places and the main fundamental network are very important in the level of the facilities of the rural regions. The results show that considering the level of facilities these villages have considerable difference in each field (economy, social, health and medical and agriculture). The differences were such that 9 out of 46 of these villages were in the privatization level in (economy, social, health and medical and agriculture) and only one village had considerable facilities.

Keywords

• Development
• The analysis of the level of Facilities
• Centrality index
• Preston models
• Village
• Zanjan Province