Hossein Ghamari; nafise marsousi; Esmaeil Aliakbari
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Despite the international importance of cooperative tourism and the global effort to attract income through tourists, tourism is not booming in different regions of Iran, including the Kashan region, due to various reasons. The purpose of the present research is to study the physical-spatial strategy ...
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Despite the international importance of cooperative tourism and the global effort to attract income through tourists, tourism is not booming in different regions of Iran, including the Kashan region, due to various reasons. The purpose of the present research is to study the physical-spatial strategy of urban tourism with a participatory approach in Kashan region. The research is applied in terms of subject and descriptive and analytical in terms of method. The techniques used are: SWOT strategic analysis model and quantitative planning matrix model. The independent research variable is tourism and the dependent research variable is physical and spatial development. This research seeks to answer the question, "What are the potentials and limitations of the physical-spatial strategy of tourism with a participatory approach in Kashan region?". The results obtained from tourists, citizens, university professors, administrators, and experts show that, according to the public, the most important weaknesses of the research are the lack of a written program in the field of public participation, low participation spirit and weak government supervision, and the most important strength of the research is the existence of suitable tourism infrastructures (in relation to other cities in the country, not in relation to the global scale). Also, according to the respondents, the lack of clarity about the role of people's participation in the country's tourism plans and, of course, the plans of the Kashan region, and the lack of economic stability, are the most important perceived threats to tourism. The set of these factors is shown in the form of a matrix. This matrix shows the priority of each of the strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities. In the matrix, the internal strategic factors got a final score of 1.82, which is not only smaller than 2.5 but also smaller than 2. As a result, despite the existence of tourist attractions in Kashan region, due to many problems, people's participation for the physical-spatial development of tourism is not satisfactory.
Mojtaba Esmaeili Vardanjani; Nafiseh Marsousi; Reza Mokhtari Malekabadi; Esmaeil Aliakbari
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The present study applies quantitative-survey method and secondary data to evaluate and spatial analysis of urban physical sustainability in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province. First, 22 objective indicators of physical sustainability were selected using CVI and CVR methods. Then, the Principal Component ...
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The present study applies quantitative-survey method and secondary data to evaluate and spatial analysis of urban physical sustainability in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province. First, 22 objective indicators of physical sustainability were selected using CVI and CVR methods. Then, the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method was applied to evaluate the physical sustainability of the cities. Also, for spatial analysis of the distribution pattern of urban physical sustainability in the province, spatial autocorrelation (Morans I) and inverse distance weighting interpolation (IDW) method were used. Based on PCA method, findings indicated that four principal components (namely; urban landuse, worn textures, intra-urban accesses, infrastructures and communication technologies) with a cumulative variance of 64.548% explained the correlation between research variables to measure and evaluate urban physical sustainability in the province. Based on spatial pattern analysis method, results showed that there is a cluster pattern of sustainability around the whole province as well as a rather concentration of physical sustainability in cities closer to Shahrekord (the province center).
ahmad pourahmad; roghaye heydari
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Continuous monitoring and forecasting of land use change in large cities is critical to both growth management and the sustainability of the urban ecosystem. The present study monitors land use and land cover changes in Rasht until 2019. It has also modeled and predicted changes until 2030. The applied ...
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Continuous monitoring and forecasting of land use change in large cities is critical to both growth management and the sustainability of the urban ecosystem. The present study monitors land use and land cover changes in Rasht until 2019. It has also modeled and predicted changes until 2030. The applied method of the article is descriptive-analytical, the data is time series of land use maps and the data processing method is the CA-Markov hybrid model. The validity of the model in the forecast has been confirmed with a kappa coefficient of 0.78 and an overall accuracy of 0.82. The results showed that the levels of urban land use class increased from 4915 hectares in 1993 to 9960 hectares in 2019 and the growth rate is predicted to reach 10555 hectares (114%) by 2030. In contrast, agricultural land cover will be reduced from 29,504 to 28,390 hectares by 2030. Overall, the declining rate in agricultural lands, paddy fields and forested areas shows that the increase in urban land use has occurred due to the encroachment of the city on land cover and the conversion of non-urban class inside and outside the city. The detrimental effects of land instability and resource instability are a major issue for the city and the current and future urban ecosystem. What is important for stabilizing the growth and gradual process to the metropolitan stage is that the management of the physical growth of the city should pay attention to both short-term and long-term periods. In the short term, it must control land cover change and transformation based on external growth control policies, and in the long term, it must focus on inward development policy strategies.
