Reviewing and evaluating the determination of the central cores of the city (case study: Tabriz city)

Rutbi, Aladdin; Hatami, Narges; Hooshyar, Mahmood; Sharifpour, Somayeh; Shah Moradi, Salah

Reviewing and evaluating the determination of the central cores of the city (case study: Tabriz city)

Document Type : Origional Article

Authors

Aladdin Rutbi ¹

Narges Hatami ²

Mahmood Hooshyar ³

Somayeh Sharifpour ⁴

Salah Shah Moradi ⁵

¹ MAS in Geography and Urban Planning, Department of Geography, Payam Noor University, Tehran Branch,Iran

² MAs Geomorphology, University of Sistan and Baluchistan,Iran

³ Department of Geography, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

⁴ MAs Geography & Urban Planning, Department of Geography, Payam Noor University, Mahabad branch,Iran

⁵ MSs in Remote Sensing, Yazd University,Iran

Abstract

Background and Aim: Urbanization is a socio-spatial process that is directly related to the expansion of urban areas and the growth of urban population. Developed countries such as the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom have already completed their urbanization processes. The urban spatial structure has a significant effect on the sustainable development of cities. One of the important stages of urban spatial structure analysis is the identification of urban centers.
Methods: This research is of applied type and was done in Tabriz city in 1402. The data collection method is library and document. The investigated indicators included educational centers, banks, health centers, offices, sports venues, commercial centers, green spaces, tourist places, religious places, military places and parking lots in Tabriz city. After preparing the urban blocks and the desired data, the prepared information was added to all the urban blocks of Tabriz in ArcGIS software. Then, based on expert opinions, the appropriate range of distances from the desired facilities was determined using a 5-point Likert scale. In this research, the network analysis method was used to identify the central cores of the city.
Findings and Conclusion: According to the results of network analysis, the city had two big central cores in the city center and 2 sub-cores around the city. The final result was that the city of Tabriz was forming the next nuclei and becoming a multi-nuclear city.

Keywords

central cores

network analysis

geographic information system

Tabriz city

Subjects

Urban Planning

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