Assessing Organic and Non-organic Model of Rural-urban Relations at Surrounding Villages (Case Study: Surrounding Villages of Babol City)

Abstract

Purpose: Today, the urban and rural areas cannot continue to exist apart from each other. According to geographical viewpoint, the study of a town is not limited to the city itself. Because a town with its surroundings, the surrounding villages and other neighbor towns has a strong geographical link. Methodology: This study is applied and method descriptive-analytical. The study population consisted of 32 villages around the city of Babol. To determine the sample size in the household questionnaire, a total of 7,288 households in villages, according to the formula Cochran, 745 households were selected as an example of the questionnaire village to village councils Dehyary and dedicated approach. Data collected by tests Chi-square, Friedman, Single-sample T, T dependent two group's testes of computer SPSS software. Finding: This study is showed that the relationship between Babol and the surrounding villages have been non-organic in the economic domains variable rural cost and income in the town, rural supply and demand in the town, the transactions related to buying and sale of land, diversity in employment and rural tourism, in the social values and beliefs and access to services and in the field of environmental. Research limitation: To achieve a balanced and organic pattern, space research, such as the field of interaction and links people, goods, money, capital, information and materials separately, with the aim to identify problems and gaps in the relationship further deliberation and villages around the city of Babylon trying to provide a balanced and organic model is recommended. Practical implication: The relationship between Babol and the surrounding villages, planning field of urban tourism development in the villages around the of Babol city, the creation of additional industrial activities and processing of agricultural products, with the aim of increasing and diversifying employment, management of transactions related to the purchase and sale of land, with the aim of preventing optimal management and control land speculation and the influx of irregular field of population and housing officials are placed in villages surrounding the Babol city in the area studied is provided. Original/ value: The study of the social and economic dimensions of urban rural relations, the regional integrated network approach that the optimal approach in relations between the city and the village, is a concern.