Land-use change on Peri-Urban: The role of rural-urban centralized and segregated planning strategy

Abstract

The growth and development of urban spaces worldwide have led to dramatic changes in the landscape of peri-urban villages. In Iran, rapid urban sprawl has also reduced agricultural land and increased scattered construction. In this study, the sprawl and its effects on land-use change periphery of the city were measured by satellite imagery using remote sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis. Thus, the trend of land-use change periphery the city of Hamedan from 1990 to 2020 separately in 7 types of land use, i.e., residential construction, non-residential construction, convertible wasteland, arable land, garden land, pastures, and the road was inspected. The present survey findings show that the adoption of centralized settlement strategies and separate rural and urban planning in Iran, especially in rural- interconnected urban areas such as the study area, causes land-use change and subsequent spatial anomalies in the city and rural settlements.