Comparative Evaluation of Educational Facilities for Social Welfare with Emphasis on Social Justice and Cultural Standards in the City

Social welfare is a system of programs, rules, services and aids that responds to the people’s basic needs and provides facilities to meet these needs. And one of the essential needs is the need to education. Regarding today's absorption of population in cities and formation of a new form of cities, one of the dimensions and subjects that have attracted the attention of the majority of experts in urban planning is addressing issues such as social justice and culture in urban topics.One of the aspects showing observance of social justice in cities is the appropriate physical combination of the facilities. In this regard the location of the educational facilities of the city, as one of the biggest sections producing urban travel, has a major role in consumption rate of energy in transportation section. In addition, it can affect the educational efficiency of the learners as well as affecting quantitative educational matters. This paper, from the stand point of social justice and emphasizing on cultural facilities in standard of adjacent facilities in the city, addresses the comparative evaluation of educational facilities in districts 6 and 13 of Tehran.The findings of the paper, derived from analytical functions of ArcGIS software on the data attained from these districts, shows that in Dist. 6 student's access to the schools and in Dist. 13 the adjacent facilities, schools are in a better position compared to other district. Therefore, paying attention to the standards and principles of positioning the educational facilities in locating future educational facilities and its adjacent facilities in these districts is necessary to achieve social justice for the citizens and improve the functionality of educational facilities due to closeness to cultural facilities.