Assessing the Physical Resilience of the Urban Fabric with a Crisis Management Approach Based on GIS (Case Study: Hadi Shahr Babolsar)

Unforeseen crises and natural events are happening worldwide, which have destroyed and changed many people’s lives; this has made it necessary, especially for statesmen and researchers, to always deal with their results and stay safe from the risks they cause. For example, the magnitude 7 earthquake in 1357 in the city of Tabas in Iran was recorded as the most severe earthquake in Iran, which caused the destruction of the entire historical fabric of this city and the loss of more than 20 thousand people, or the flood that occurred in 1380 in Golestan, North Iran has the highest number of casualties in the world. Based on this, the present research aims to evaluate and find solutions to reduce casualties and the destructive effects of natural crises. In doing so, first, the physical indicators at the level of a city, which have an impact on its resilience against crises, were extracted through the review of previous books and research, and then the Specialized GIS urban planning software was used to evaluate each one in the city in question Finally, by using the data obtained from output maps and field data from the region, the city’s resilience was obtained regarding each of the indicators. In the end, considering the weakness of the urban structure in each of the components, solutions were provided to improve the existing situation so that the city could be brought to a higher degree of resilience. The study area in question was one of the newly built cities in the north of Iran