Assessing the Effective factors of Crimes in the Physical Space of Urmia City

The layout of the physical space of the city has a great impact on the living locations of citizens. Some factors such as the deep gap between traditional and modern contexts, forgetting and marginalizing a part of the city in the process of development, unplanned development, and the migration crisis have caused the current physical quality to not meet the needs of residents and provide the ground for the occurrence of many crimes in the city. The city of Urmia is an example in this regard. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors affecting the occurrence of conflict crime in Urmia. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of research method. Data collection has been done in three ways: research, documentary and fieldwork. Geographic Information System (GIS), SPSS and Expert Choice software were used to analyze the collected data. The results indicate that from the perspective of the components of the environmental-physical analysis model of crime (including the principle of strengthening natural surveillance with 4 measures, the principle of access control with 3 measures, the principle of strengthening natural territories with 5 measures, the principle of environmental protection with one measure and the principle of supporting healthy social activities with two measures), the city of Urmia has many potential points for crime. In general, according to the criteria of the environmental physical analysis approach, most of these potential points for crime are located on the outskirts of Urmia.