The Effect of Public Lands and Housing Assignment Policy on Physical Development of Iran Cities Case Study: Kermanshah City

In the present century, the government has the greatest effect on physical development of the cities which occurred through transferring free or affordable lands for construction of residential buildings, grant facilities through banking systems and preparation of urban development plans with the consequences including lands annexation and land use change.This research aimed to understand the direct government intervention in lands and housing section and ultimately physical development of a great city like Kermanshah. In this respect, this question arises that how this intervention took place? What was its impact on the physical development of the city? The research method of this paper is analytical- descriptive method and by analysis of the existing information and statistics in this field as well as aerial photos and maps of Kermanshah city, has come to the conclusion that the government policies particularly in the form of urban land was the greatest factor in physical development of Kermanshah city, Also the maps of urban development stages together with ownership of public lands and transferring indicates that this event caused the horizontal spread of the city and low land use intensity.