Spatial analysis of social justice in the enjoyment of Public Utilities, Case Study: 16 fields in Ardabil

One of the most important consequences of rapid growth of urbanization in recent decades has been chaos of urban service distribution system which is the main cause of inequality in benefiting these services by the citizens. Therefore, the most crucial mission of planners and city managers in this area is attempting to achieve the ideal of 'equality of opportunitie's among all society groups to access to the public services and eliminating contrasts in providing opportunities. In this regard, one of the basic elements of the city to increase the level of social welfare is the municipal services. The purpose of this study is to do spatial analysis of social justice in employing the urban public services in 16 districts of the city of Ardabil. The research method is descriptive-analytic. The accessibility to the public services by the residents was measured by the Weighted ANP Model. The data were then leveled using Tapis and Saw models. Regarding to the different ranks in different restricts of the city in the various models, finally, all results were merged using Kandrst Model. The results showed that the restricts 12 and 11 have got the first rank in terms of having very favorable situation in using the services; restricts 14, 15, 13 and 16, have got the second rank in the benefited class; the restricts 6 and 10 have achieved the half of the benefitted class, and restricts 7, 9, 5, and 2, have got the fourth place in the category of undesirable class. And finally, restricts 3, 4, and 8 have been in the last classification in benefiting the public services. That is they get the least benefit of services.