Distribution of Urban Facilities and Services by Social Justice Approach

Today's cities, especially in developing countries, due to population growth and urbanization require attention to the spatial and social justice in optimum enjoying of different favorable urban facilities and services. But the issue of unsuitable servicing the areas and deficiencies in providing such services and facilities are in contrast with the concept of justice. This study tries to evaluate the distribution method of urban services in all neighborhoods of Piranshahr city. The research method is of descriptive –analytical one and for this purpose, AHP, Average of Nearest Neighbor , TOPSIS technique and Network Analysis models have been used. To perform these process, ARC GIS and Super Decision softwares have been used, In a way that the distribution of municipal services in the city were shown and urban neighborhoods were ranked from the view point of having urban services . The results were plotted in the form of GIS maps and charts. The obtained results showed that there is a noticeable social inequality in Piranshahr neighborhoods in service accessibility because the rich ones access is about 0.58 has a great distance with the poorest one which is about 0.04.