Document Type : Articles from PhD & Master Dissertations
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Ph.D. student of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Professor of Human Geography and Planning, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
During the last three decades, one of the effects of the accelerated urbanization process on the spatial structure of the country is the increasing growth of the number of cities through the transformation of villages into towns and the formation of premature cities at the end of the pyramid of the country's urban network. Therefore, this research aims to identify the factors for expanding raw cities in Semnan province. For this purpose, a descriptive-analytical method based on library-field information was used. Using statistics and documents, the factors of this process were first identified. The fuzzy Delphi technique was used to investigate the existing damages, and 15 experts in this field were selected by purposeful sampling. The research findings identified seven premature cities in Semnan province: Mayamy, Biarjmand, Amirieh, Kalate-Roudbar, Kohanabad, Royan, and Rezvan. By categorizing the promotion factors into three natural, political, and planning categories, it was found that the most important factor is the political component, which has created five premature cities. Each of the demographic and planning factors has also each created a city. Regarding the pathology in the transformation of the village to the city, the most important harm of the parliamentarians' involvement in the upgrading of rural areas to the city was identified, and the one-dimensionality of the law and only attention to the demographic factor was identified as the second most important harm in the process of the transformation of the village to the city. According to the findings, it was concluded that in most of the census periods since 1335, there were cities with less than 5000 people, but this issue has increased in the last three decades due to the large manipulation of the law.
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