Locating Multi-purpose Spaces with the Aim of Crisis Management After Earthquake Case Study: Worn Texture of Shooshtar City

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Natural disasters including devastating earthquakes have always  been considered as the most destructive factors of  human settlements. This issue in the cities, as the most supreme centers of human gatherings, due to population density and vulnerability of old and worn textures in the cities, makes inevitable the necessity of discussion about planning and crisis management. In the current study, the information were collected from methodological point of view as descriptive- analytical method, the aim of the research is identifying and locating multipurpose spaces aiming at crisis management after earth quake in old and worn textures of Shooshtar city.
 For locating multi-purpose spaces, by using experts’ opinions, 8 types of urban spaces including green spaces, connecting spaces, passenger terminals, office spaces, sport spaces, educational facilities spaces, medical and rescue areas and open empty spaces have been selected.For valuating nominated spaces for prioritizing the proper space  for crisis management after earthquake in old and worn texture of  Shooshtar,the opinions of 15 experts have been used. For analyzing the weights obtained from expert opinions, Fuzzy Delphi Analytic Hierarchy Model (FDAHP) has been used.
The results from this phase were obtained both as fuzzy Weighting   in the form of minimum, average and maximum fuzzy weight and also as the final non-fuzzy weight and  Finally through combining these results in Arc GIS software; has led to fuzzy and non-fuzzy maps of final  locating  the multipurpose spaces for Disaster Management in worn texture of Shooshtar.The results show that the open and empty spaces with obtaining maximum fuzzy weight of 0.769 and final non Fuzzy weight of 0.356 ,is the first priority  from the view point ofprofessionals  for locating the  crisis management for damaged people of earth quake in the worn textures of Shooshtar city.

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