Planning for Recreational - Cultural Land Use of Isfahan Urban Areas and ICT Role in Regional Equilibrium

Rapid changes of the today’s world have made impossible the achievement of long term progress without a continuous review. furthermore, the facilities, capabilities and priorities of urban societies are continually changing. Therefore, understanding the situation of different urban uses and determining the shortage amount and imbalances in various regional levels is being considered as an inevitable necessity. In this respect, among different urban uses, recreational and cultural uses request their own particular necessities for having a great role on cultural richness of the urban societies, and have a great importance. Therefore, being aware of their situation would be necessary for planning and management of such situations.As indicated, this paper, through implementing the shift share analysis model, intends to review and analyze the level and per capita changes of recreational and cultural uses of the eleventh districts of Isfahan city with the level and per capita of the said uses in Isfahan city between the two eras of preparing detailed plan(1996) and the review plan (2005), then upon understanding the difference and imbalance amount between the regions as a low level of studies and Isfahan city (as a reference level of studies) tries to provide recommendations and guide lines for the establishment of regional balance and equilibrium by implementing the new communication technologies and its impact on equilibrium of the regional development.The results obtained through the performed studies, shows that on one hand, there is a considerable difference between the eleventh districts of Isfahan city from the view point of level and per capita of uses and on the other hand, this difference is more intensive between the small districts and Isfahan as a reference.