Evaluation of the Realization of the Land Use Pattern in Urban Development Plans and Planning for its Improvement: A Case Study of the City of Mirjaveh

The population growth of cities, coupled with inadequate distribution of services and improper location selection, is one of the negative outcomes of population increase. The primary goal of urban land-use planning is to provide social and economic welfare for citizens. Therefore, this study aims to assess the land-use pattern and improve the implementation of land-use patterns in the comprehensive plan of Mirjaveh city, and to analyze the changes in the composition and amount of residential, transportation, educational, healthcare, and cultural land use in Mirjaveh city over the period of 2009-2023 in terms of per capita allocation. Excel and AutoCAD 2019 were used for data analysis in this study. In the comprehensive plan of Mirjaveh city, the per capita land allocation order for residential land use was 51.50 square meters, 29.25 square meters for transportation land use, 54.2 square meters for educational land use, 2.2 square meters for healthcare land use, and 23.1 square meters for cultural land use in 1388. The results show an increase in per capita land allocation for residential land use with 57.91 square meters, transportation land use with 71.50 square meters, and educational land use with 76.2 square meters, while the per capita allocation for healthcare land use decreased by 2.2 square meters and cultural land use decreased by 18.0 square meters. These results demonstrate the failure to achieve the proposed land-use allocation in 2009. Using the information presented in this study, future plans can be developed by calculating urban land development with regard to each of the indices and sub-indices. This can help identify the strengths and weaknesses of plans in achieving their goals.