Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Farhad Azizpour
• Roghayyeh Shamsi

Abstract

Factors of the natural-ecologic, social, economic, historical and political environment affects formation, establishment and organization of rural environments.
Thus, the present article seeks to clarify the influence of natural elements (natural-ecologic environments) in transformability of spatial organization in 11 rural districts of Lavasan-e Kuchak village. Descriptive-analytic methods and secondary-research methods are used for collecting information. Moreover, models like Gatman institutional measurement, value of centrality, total minimum distance, number of direct links, number of communicative nodes and demographic capacity are also considered.
Results indicate that natural elements, especially topography, water resources and slope have influenced the position of rural settlements. This has resulted in the spatial organization of the study area possessing a two-level hierarchical structure. Moreover, based on the results it is suggested to form spatial organization of the area with three rural areas of Afje, Kantiya and Bujan villages and a rural complex of Lavasan city.

Keywords

• spatial organization
• Environmental factors
• Lavasan village
• Rural settlements
• hierarchical structure