فصلنامه پژوهش و برنامه ریزی شهری
پیاپی 6 (پاییز 1390)

Regional differences in national development process are major issues in development planning and Policy making. Using growth Pole model and emphasis on developed regions or development Polarization causes a deep gap between regions in development issues. Different income per capital in different regions is one of the outcomes of this process. This differentiation in western Azerbaijan Province especially in southern townships is very distinctive. The methodology of this research is descriptive – analytical and in order to measure development levels in south townships, data were gathered and using numeral taxonomy model townships were classified based on eight indices that indicate industrial development in these regions. The results show that vicinity to international borders not only has no effect on development ratio in these townships but some ethnic and language differentiations determine development level.

The improvement and renovation of urban exhausted textures are important challenges that urban management in such developing countries as Iran is confronted. Physical and functional exhaustions and their social consequences in some urban quarters, particularly central ones to which not considerable attention have been paid by urban management and planners in modernism era, give the impression that they are problematic regions entering post-modernism era. The regressive trend as proper and adequate governmental facilities were not provided, according to an accurate estimate of necessary expenses for improvement and renovation, will not undoubtedly take a responsible approach upholding citizenship rights to these kinds of texture; while what distinguishes some of these quarters with physical exhaustion from other urban quarters is the presence of some elements of social sustainability that is essential for the survival of the cities. Sarcheshmeh Quarter (the old texture), located in the downtown of Sardasht City with a population of 1132 people, as the studied area of the research is not an anomaly to the rule and started to decay in an exhaustion cycle. The examination of the study area in socio-economic and physical-spatial terms for providing effective solutions to the improvement and renovation indicated that there is some evidence of sense of place as the most important factor of social sustainability. The factor can be used as a parameter to establish public-based organizations and institutes, NGOs and CBOs for the improvement and renovation of the quarter. But, physical-oriented approaches cause urban management to neglect such an important factor in the renovation of these kinds of texture. The research was followed by a descriptive-analytical method and positivist approach and the data were collected from literature and field surveys.

The industrial revolution made huge developments in urban areas specifically their environment, culture, political features, economy, space of physical specifications, society, mentality and sanitary. One of the outstanding goals of locating industrial towns adjacent to old ones is employment factor which paved the way to improve economy circumstances. So, this factor and its economic consequences make it possible to improve urban life and organize production and develop the economical system including social, cultural, spatial and physical features. Establishing Albourz industrial town adjacent to Alvand village in mid1350s paved the way to improve employment which attracted a large number of populations and developed urban spatial-physical feature. The aim of this research is to recognize Alvand town's essential developments using the change of employment structure. In this research, population which determines the size of town has been considered as a dependent variant and agriculture, industry and service sectors have been considered as independent variants. Using these variants helps us study Alvand town's population and its employed population during four decades. The results indicate that there is no meaningful relationship between the size of town and agriculture sector; but there is a meaningful relationship between the size of town and industry and service sectors.