Converting the Village to City and Sustainable Urban Development (A Case of Fars Province - Iran)

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Converting the Village to City and Sustainable Urban Development (A Case of Fars Province - Iran)

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Omidi S, Khatoon Abadi A, Ebrahimi MS.
Journal. Civil Eng. Urban. 4(2): 195-198. 2014

ABSTRACT: In the recent years, increase in urban centers by promoting the big and susceptive villages is considered as one of the main policies to improve the rural life style in Iran. In this way, many rural areas have been converted to cities. The aim of this research is prioritization of the effects of villages’ conversion to cities by analyzing the residents’ viewpoints. The research area is Hassanabad rurban in Fars province. The city has improved in 2009. The research method is descriptive - analytical and the required data was collected by questionnaire. The results show that the viewpoint of the residents of Hassanabad has the greatest impacts on the social dimension indicators such as: improvement of: health services, communication services and the accommodations’ safety facilities. Also greatest impacts on the positive economic Hassanabad to city conversion are respective in indicators: increased shopping around  villages of Hassanabad, reduce dependence on county center and access to required goods in place and greatest impacts on the negative economic are respective in indicators: increased tax costs, reduction in pasture land and difficulty of keeping livestock in the city limits.
Keywords: City, Conversion, Policy, Rurban, Village.

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