The Role of Industrial Towns on the Socio- Economical Development of The Urban and Regional (Case Study: Mehriz City)

Today, industrialization is considered as one of the most important steps towards achieving a multilateral and balanced development in developing countries and because in many Iranian cities, urbanization growth is almost accompanied by industrial growth, establishing industries in the form of industrial city and estates is one of the most significant components of the development sustainable of cities. The general objective of the research is to examine the effectiveness of the industrial city in improving socio- economic and environmental indicators of the city of Mehriz and provide solution for developing industry in this city. Questionnaire and library methods are used to achieve these objectives. It must be noted that in this research after preparing the theoretical framework and generalities of the research, field operations were performed in order to obtain information about the city under study and examine the effects of industrial city. In general, two type of questionnaire (residents of Mehriz and units industry managers) were designed to conduct the research and the SPSS and Excel software programs were used to analyze data. The research hypothesis testing using the chi square, mann-whitney and independent t-test shows that the industrial city caused some improvements in a Mehriz socio-economic conditions so that there is a significant difference in economic indexes (income and saver rate, create and variety engagement, consumption rate of consumer goods and household cost, type and surface area of the housing unit, real estate speculation and increased incentive for participation rate) social indexes (migration rate, tendency to stay for engagement and populate, insurance type, participation rate, literacy and education level, use for collective relation device) between employed and unemployed resident in the industrial city. This, in turn, has result in certain negative environmental impacts such as (water and soil pollution, noise pollution, air pollution and view/landscape pollution.