Land use Compatibility Assessment Based on GIS-AHP model and Study the Usages Distribution Pattern and their Impact on the Quality of Urban Life (Case study: the old texture of Kerman city)

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Inappropriate distribution of urban usages  and disregarding the spatial –location components of decision making ,  including  the compatibility of urban land uses are of the main reasons for the loss of quality of life in urban contexts. Therefore, analysis  of  the arrangement  of different uses  together and  study of their distribution pattern is essential. Therefore, this article tries to use the models which simultaneously able to integrate a great number of quantitative and qualitative criteria like  Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) and their integration in the form of  Geographic Information System(GIS) with the capability of location displaying of phenomenon evaluates the compatibility of the land of status quo in the form of GIS maps in the old texture of Kerman city and the final out put map of this model has been presented .Also ,in order to evaluate the distribution of land uses in the study, the closest proximity (RN) has been used. The current study is a descriptive - analytical type and  of field branch. The results indicate that the uses in the old texture of Kerman in the status quo in terms of compatibility, the system of distribution and proximity pattern, is not so compatible with the urban planning criteria and such issue has affected on the quality of urban life in the area. The most compatibility can be observed in the residential uses , so that 89% of residential uses are  placed at fully compatible and relatively compatible with their neighborhoods. Also disorder and randomness of uses distribution can easily and much  be seen in the old texture of Kerman city.

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Geography and Territorial Spatial Arrangement
Volume 5, Issue 17 - Serial Number 17
February 2016
Pages 209-226

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  • Receive Date: 01 February 2016
  • Accept Date: 01 February 2016

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