FACTORS EFFECTING IN THE ABSORPTION OF POPULATION TO SATELLITE NEW TOWN (THE CASE STUDY: ANDISHE NEW TOWN)

Introduction Urbanization Development in Iran and in the world, has caused growing critical problems, and has made it necessary to have a review on urban planning in our country. Spatial distribution of cities and population and their control and guide have not made within a comprehensive national plan, and problems rising from quick urban growth have become complicated. Before 1921, Iran enjoyed a reasonable system of urbanization and urban development. It continued to be a homogenous one up to 1956 in which no city was superior to the other. But since late 1950s, with rural population invasion to cities, and increasing urban population, the country's current problems gradually emerged. One of the most evident instances of immigration in Iran is physical and spatial instances. It appeares in the form of settlement in slums, which will eventually accelerate urbanization and physical growth of big cities and particularly metropolitans. Therefore, since 1981, the government has started establishing new towns, aiming to absorb population overflow, reducing economic load of metropolitans, preventing big cities to extend irregularity, local extension, optimal population distribution and so on. In this regard, 32 cities were located and 17 town were performed. Four towns of Andisheh, Pardis, Parand, and Hashtgerd were located and built near the largest metropolitan in Iran, Tehran. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ  E-mail:shokouhim@yahoo.com Tel: 09151125569