Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• fereydon babaei
• Abozar Motidoost
• Mohammadamin Attar
• somayeh roshan roodi

Abstract

This research is followed to study relationship between Socio-Economic Status of urban zones and Spatial Segregation in Takab City. In this way to study the relationship between variable of socio-economic status and variable of urban zone. The research is as kind of applied studies and research method is survey. The qualitative analysis and statistical tests are used to answer the research questions. Excel and SPSS softwares are used for data analysis. Cross tabulation and Pearson Chi-Square test and Cramer's correlation coefficient and Lambda correlation coefficient and Goodman and Kruskal tau correlation coefficient and uncertainty coefficient are used to determining relationship between variables. Takab city has provided an appropriate field for spatial segregation phenomenon. So that immigration and move of Kurd race from rural areas to the city during the past decades and its entrance mainly from the western side of this city, has caused a tissue with quite residential segregation in his city. The results of this study indicate that there is a significant relationship between variable of socio-economic status and variable of urban zone. In one word, socio-economic status has caused spatial segregation of urban zones in Takab city. Spatial segregation is observed between zone 1 (east and southeast of the city) and zone 2 (the western part of the city) with high density and between zone 3 (the city center) and zone 4 (north and southwest of the city) with a lower density.

Keywords

• Spatial Segregation
• Socio-Economic Status
• Urban Zone
• Takab City

Main Subjects

• All other Geographic fields of studies , Interdisciplinary