An Analysis on the Criteria and indicators of locating Industrial cities with Focus on Spatial planning and Land Use planning in Iran

Today, development of industry in form of complex, area, district or industrial cities is a common phenomenon in urban areas that particular attention must be paid for optimum locating of such areas. Hence in our country during the last decades, due to the lack of attention to proper factors in locating such land use, has caused the spatial imbalances in the regions. This research, with the aim of studding the effective factors on locating the industrial areas, will analyze and study these factors according to spatial planning and land use planning in Iran. Descriptive - analytical method was used for this study, the required information retrieved from documents and text resources. In the first step, the effective factors and criteria on locating industrial areas were obtained through referring to library and written texts, and with respect to the focus of this research on spatial and land use planning, these factors classified into four spatial levels of national, regional, areal and local, then since this factors have not equal importance and weight, their weights were determined by Analytical Network Process (ANP) model. The obtained results of this research shows the following natural factors are more important than human factors, local factors has more weight than other spatial level and the weight of factors reduces with enhance of their spatial level from local level to national ones.