Evaluation of land use mixture in neighborhoods of Sabzevar city

Today, with the development of paradigms such as the compact city, smart growth and new urbanism, mixed land use-as one of principles of this paradigm- has been expanded in urban planning of developing countries and various researchers tried to develop literature and assessment methods of land use based on the concept of mixture of land use.
The concept of urban land use mix implies that nearby land uses or activities have an influence over each other across a limited spatial range.One of the interests of researchers in field of land use studies is appropriate assessing of land use mix and therefore some researchers have tried to measure mixture of land use in different parts of a city using specific indicators. Given the importance of the subject, this paper tried to measure mixture of land use in neighborhoods of Sabzevar City using defined indicators (entropy, accessibility , focal statistics). The results indicate that the values obtained from these indicators is closely together. Final index was calculated by combining these3 indices that It was determined the significant difference between different neighborhoods. The results show a negative correlation between the distance of neighborhood from the city center and mixture of land use ,So with distance from the downtown, land use mix is reduced. Moran statistics also show that there is spatial autocorrelation between different neighborhoods in terms of land use.