Planning and Localizing Daily Bazaars in Urban Regions (Case Study: Regions 3 and 4 of Tabriz)

Cities، with whatever function they have، cannot be away from commercial and trade activities. Because، human’s social life and needs call for these activities. Local bazaars and daily bazaars are salient samples of these commercial activities which have existed since a long time ago. In fact، daily bazaars concentrate the commercial activities and this concentration leads to consumer’s simple accessibility and time saving. One of the urban services is establishing daily bazaars to provide citizens’ daily needs sufficiently; based on the municipalities’ law، urban management is responsible for preparing this service. Tabriz city، as one of the metropolitans of Iran، has only five daily bazaars. Regarding the fact that none of these bazaars are located in regions 3and4، suitable localizing and establishing daily bazaars would improve citizens’ welfare. So، preparing convenient accessibility to daily bazaars for citizens of urban regions 3 and 4 of Tabriz city and providing their requirements in the local scale is the main aim of this study. The sum of the population of regions 3and 4 is 639106. Taking the population threshold equal to 40000، the number of needed bazaars in existent condition is 16. For localizing bazaars، all unused land lots were determined using Arc View software (104 lots). Then، these lots were compared and analyzed with respect to land area، slope، land form، accessibility، population density، parking potential، compatibility and land cost، using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Expert Choice software.