Land Suitability Assessment of Health Centers Using CF Analysis (Case Study: 1st and 8th Districts of Ahvaz)

Evaluating the lands’ proportionality is a basis for urban planning in cities, mostly regarding the proper use of lands and it guides the urban usages in a way that prevents the incorrect and incompatible adjacency and allows the right proportionality of lands to develop. The current paper used the descriptive-analysis attitude to evaluate the lands’ proportionality of healthcare centers in the 1st and 8th districts of Ahvaz city. In order to reach the aim explained above and to analyze the collected data, the ArcGIS software and the CF function was used. At the end, the spatial distribution of lands and the proportionality percentages of each chosen healthcare user were defined. The results showed that the most incompatibility first belonged to the industrial usages with the amount of 16.17%, the local usages with 8.17% and the fire station centers with the amount of 7.53%, and the least incompatibility belonged to the main streets with the amount of 0.71%. Finally, out of all the case study area, 41.09% were the incompatible, 18.66% were the neutral and 13.02% were recognized as the compatible lands. Based on the researches and studies, in the case study areas, the lands proportionality and adjacency of the chosen usages, were not applied properly according to the healthcare usages.