Abstract
The growing increase in the number of small towns, brought about as a result of Iran’s demographic changes in recent decades, has necessitated due consideration of these towns in the country’s hierarchical urban system on the one hand and their economic function in their immediate periphery on the other. In the present article, an analysis has been conducted of the economic role Zahedshahr has played as a small town in its rural periphery by using the Jacqueline Beaujeu Garnier and George Shapou’s Model, as well as the Locational Coefficient and the Abscissa-Ordinate Graphic Models. Results obtained from the analysis showed that the above town, in spite of its small size, has played an effective role in providing services to the inhabitants of its surrounding areas, as well as acting as a center for sale of surplus agricultural products, thanks to its relatively equipped administrative, educational, commercial, etc., centers. The find- ings of this research also showed the development of Zahedshahr to be directly dependent on the social and economic conditions of its periphery, so that rural population and agricultural products stability can influence such development.
Highlights
Definition of the ProblemSince early times and in all countries and civilizations, urbanism has been the most obvious way of human societies’ evolution
This in turn should lead to improved rural functions since the distribution of the employed in Zahedshahr reveals a mainly servicebased economy resulting from the town’s acceptance of immigrants
1) Conclusions An essential role envisaged for small towns is the development and mobilization of rural economy as well as the agricultural sector
Summary
Definition of the ProblemSince early times and in all countries and civilizations, urbanism has been the most obvious way of human societies’ evolution. According to research results published by the United Nations, 71 of 114 developing countries deemed as unacceptable the spatial distribution of their population, and have initiated fundamental reforms to bring about substantial changes into the spatial distribution, and the internal displacement of the same. Another 24 countries (amounting to 20 percent of all countries in the world) believed their population distribution to be somewhat unacceptable and in need of intervention or policymaking [2].
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