A STUDY OF LOCATIONAL PATTERNS OF URBAN FACILITIES EMPLOYING GIS AND AHP MODELS

Land use pattern of primary educational areas in the city of Shahroud shows radical incompatibility regarding to next and surrounding uses. Moreover, there is lack of educational land in some densely populated areas. In other words there are problems in term of spatial distribution of educational uses of land. Therefore, planning for proper distribution and location of educational areas in the city is among essential needs. In this sense the employment of multi-criteria approaches to deal with location patterns are necessary. One of the privileged and most used approaches if hierarchal analysis is using AHP. Attempts are made in this study to combine AHP with GIS to underline the existing shortcomings and propose appropriable locations for new schools to be built in the future.