Optimal Locating of the New Towns in Qazvin Province based on Climatic Parameters

Due to the increasing population and urban development, locating suitable locations according to climatic parameters for constructing new towns is the concern of today's world. Locating is an activity in order to select a suitable location for a particular application by assessing and analyzing the spatial and non-spatial seating properties of a land. Hence, locating suitable areas according to climatic parameters for constructing new towns in Qazvin province is the main goal of the present study. The method of this study is to determine the importance and weight of climatic parameters using fuzzy-AHP and data from two questionnaires Delphi and pairwise comparison method. The susceptible areas in terms of climate conditions were identified in a case study in Qazvin province. Finally the results show that, according to climate conditions for creating new cities, 9.6 percent area of the province were located in the highly desirable region, 31.3 percent in favorable region, 40.7 percent in moderate region, 12.3 percent in undesirable region, and 9.1 percent in the complete undesirable region, respectively