Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Hossein Sarami ¹
• Hosseinali Kazemi ²

¹ Member of Faculty, University of Isfahan

² Master of Geography and Urban Planning

Abstract

New cities have a history of several thousand years as newly built settlements without initial nuclei, which are based on previously thought plan and structure (Narimani, 1998, p. 12). In Iran, due to changes caused by influence of capitalism, urban network and system have gone out of equilibrium, and phenomena such as concentration of regional metropolises, population accumulation, massive migration and accelerated urbanization have come into existence that have in turn led to many problems. In this regard, the policy of constructing new cities was raised in late 1985 as a practical and scientific solution for reduction of these problems and as a new experience and fundamental movement in the country's urban system.