Identifying and Evaluating Factors Affecting the Formation of Physical Structure

The relationships between cities and villages and their quality and quantity affect the physical formation of the rural settlements as well as their internal and external relationships in different ways, so that gradual expansion of the city body to the surrounding or the cities infringement to the lands surrounding the villages resulted in providing a suitable ground for regional development or creating imbalance between the city and village, followed by the lack of appropriate regional development. This trend can be also seen in Abbasa village in Noor city. Therefore, the present study aims to answer the question of how development of Noor city towards Abbasa village has changed its physical structure and through what factors these changes have been made. This is a descriptive-analytical survey. Thus, 334 participants were questioned through random sampling. After collecting field data through questionnaire, statistical data were analyzed by hierarchical analysis and path analysis using AMOS and Expert Choice software. It was found that among 16 indices evaluated for economic development, social development, and cultural development in Abbasa village, the Rural Land Use Change Index with the highest total weight score (0.198) and two indices of security and the level of satisfaction with the housing with the lowest score (0.013) affected physical changes in Abbasa village. The results obtained from the path analysis also indicated that among the three factors of urban development, economic development factor with total impact factor of 0.713 had the greatest effect on the physical structure changes in Abbasa village, followed by cultural development with total impact factor of 0.528 and social development with an impact factor of 0.404, which affected physical changes of the village