Clarifying the role of spatial factors in the establishment of the optimal model of rural service centers based on the social justice approach (Case study: villages of Isfahan city)

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Postdoctoral research in department of Geography and Rural Planning, Faculty of Geographical Sciences and Planning, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

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Proper access to services in rural areas is one of the necessities of rural development. In fact, rural service centers also play an important role in providing facilities and services needed by villages under their influence; Because these centers are considered as a base for mobility and desire to live in rural areas. For this purpose, the present study was compiled with the aim of locating rural service establishment centers and determining the level of development of villages in Isfahan city. For this purpose, 9 indicators for the location of rural service centers (population density, access to educational and cultural services, access to health and treatment services, access to infrastructure facilities, access to communication and transportation, access to business and commercial services, access to political services and administrative, land slope criteria, topography and height), selecting and using the network analysis process model (ANP) the importance coefficient of specific criteria and the coefficients obtained in the geographic information system (GIS) environment in the information layers The effect was given. By overlapping them, areas suitable for the establishment of rural service centers have been identified. The results of the research show that the population density criterion with an importance coefficient of 0.191 is the most important and the land slope index with an importance coefficient of 0.068 has the least importance in the process of locating rural service centers in Isfahan city. The results of the ANP-GIS combined analysis showed that the North, West and Central regions have the capacity to establish rural service centers.

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