Analyzing and Evaluation of Land Use in Maragheh City

Abstract: Nowadays the land use and civil environment both from natural and skeletal view and also from economic and social view has encountered qualitative changes. It's obvious that using from ground and environment as an essential public source and general property must be done under a systematic plan. A proper planning for a city needs to be aware of its skeletal features and the way to use its available current grounds. This paper intends to survey how to use Maragheh city's grounds, its surfaces and capitation control in order to recognize service deficiencies of current status. The research method used in this qualitative survey is analytic and scaling that the issues and lack of controls has been studied separately on the basis of qualitative and quantities evaluation and with the help of geographical information system (GIS), the controls were analyzed.The results of research shows that from one aspect expanding body of Maragheh city in recent decades has been raised and caused to imbalance in scattering of controls. As Maragheh city with respect to regional conditions consists of potential natural and green environment, other controls especially residential controls has been improved in them. On the other hand capitation of many existing controls doesn't equal with suitable urbanism standards.