An Analysis on the spatial pattern, dimensions and related factors to urbanism growth of contemporary in Iran (Emphasizing on development and livelihood indexes)

The quick growth of urbanism without planning and policies would lead to irreparable consequences in the area of country’s spatial balance, therefore the aim of represented research is to explain the urbanism spatial pattern and also evaluate the relationship between urbanism with various industrial, economic, social and cultural, infrastructural, services and facilities, Health & Therapy and agricultural development factors. The Moran and Gary models and also the hotspots analysis method in ARC GIS software have been utilized to evaluate the urbanism spatial pattern in the country and also the Pierson Correlation Coefficient Test in SPSS software has been used to evaluate the relationship between the urbanism and mentioned factors. The results from Moran and Gary showed that the urbanism spatial pattern in 1996 to 2012 in the country have had a centralized and cluster state which has been increasing evidently. Also it turned out that the urbanism pattern has a great conformity to the industrial development pattern in the country. The results obtained from Pierson Correlation Coefficient shows evident of the existence of a meaningful and positive relationship between urbanism growth with economic, social, cultural and infrastructural however there is none between the growth of urbanism and services and facilities, Heath and Therapy and agricultural development. Therefore, despite of the positive aspects of urbanism in some of the economic, social-cultural and infrastructural indicators, the noticeable problems and failures in the status of services and facilities, health and therapy in the cities should not be neglected.