Rural Master Plan as a Factor Intensifying the Suburbia Phenomenon (Case Study: Eslamabad Village, Rafsanjan)

Year 2015, Volume: 36 Issue: 3, 3979 - 3987, 13.05.2015

Morteza Khazanehha , Hossein Rezaeı Behnoush Seyfaadını Shams Abad

Abstract

Abstract. Master plans have been compiled and executed in rural regions with the aim of organizing and improving the rural regions, establishing order, and developing the area in the determined framework. Master plan affects the social, economic, physical and environmental structure of the village directly or indirectly. These effects are obvious on the suburbia phenomenon as well. This research, which is applied regarding its goal, and descriptive-analytical regarding its nature and methodology, tries to answer this question whether executing rural master plan in the villages at the outskirts of the cities affects the suburbia phenomenon. The methodology in this research is case study by making use of compound strategies, and the librarian and field methods have been applied for collecting the information. The results of this study show that the cities’ suburbia phenomenon, in regard with economic, cultural, physical and environmental factors, has a direct relationship with enjoying new services and industrialization, and factors such as increased urban services at the suburbs due to execution of master plans which to some how provides the urban services for the villages in a smaller scale by the aim of fair distribution of services, affect this phenomenon. In other words, by execution rural master plans, population stop in villages and their outskirts, especially small neighbouring villages, is increased, which is in turn a factor that intensifies the suburbia phenomenon around the cities, and villages disappearance in its true sense.  

Keywords

Culture, Eslamabad village, Rafsanjan, rural master plan, suburbia, urban services

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