An Analysis of Spatial Equilibrium of Urban Land Use Case Study: Nowsud City

Today, spatial analysis is one of the important issues of urban planners and practices. The spatial equilibrium in the public services of city reflects a well-organized and desirable urban structure that has expanded the city's public services and utilities appropriately for the residents of the city. The city of Nowsud, one of the border towns of Iran with a population of about 1800 people and according to its sensitive regional situation, needs attention to the urban structure and the provision of public needs so that citizens will be satisfied with them and will require people to stay more in the city. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the level and per capita of the city's public services are distributed and supplied. Educational spaces, green spaces, cultural space, etc. are important elements in the formation of urban neighborhoods and its bone structure. The research method is development method in terms of purpose and is descriptive and analectic in terms of the value and in order to measure the spatial distribution of applications. Williamson coefficients and Shannon entropy models as well as GIS ARC software were used to provide more detailed maps and analyzes. The results of the research show that the city of Nowsud is composed of two old and new main neighborhoods in its spatial structure. The population of the old neighborhood is about one-third of the city's population, with a very high population density than the average of the city. But it should be noted that the placement of most public utilities and services in the new neighborhood is new so that so that the new neighborhood which is in the southern of the city, faces a surplus in per capita and the old neighborhood (the northern part of the city) faces with a huge shortage in per capita. Also, many land uses are not properly located due to their functional radius, which indicates the unfair spatial distribution of land uses as well as the inefficient spatial organization of this city, that finally, some suggestions have been presented to address it.