Investigating industry impacts on spatial and physical structures of Baghershahr, Tehran, Iran

Since the Industrial Revolution, industry has been one of the main factors that have caused changes in spatial and physical structure and organization of settlements. In this study we have provided an analysis based on documental and survival data to analyze the role of industries on Baghershahr spatial and physical structures. The study area included Baghershahr, a town with a population of 56000 located in 4 km far from the south of Tehran city in Iran.In the study besides using a descriptive explanation, we use the structural intersecting analysis in Micmac, and one-Sample T-Test and Friedman Test in SPSS software. Finding show that industry cause many influences in Baghershahr spatial- physical structure through: extensive changes in land use, creating and extending infrastructures, developing direct and indirect jobs, increasing Baghershar municipality incomes, creating pollution, consuming resources, and etc. Structural Intersecting analysis results show that effective and key variables such as trade function of Tehran, establishing huge national industries, vicinity to main roads, Tehran consumer market, and tax fraude are related to industry in any way. Thus, the variable affect Baghershahr structural changes have a strength relation to each other. According to T-Test, industry consequences have had negative strength impacts on the town structures totally. The most influence is happen on environmental and physical dimensions and it has been negative. Friedman Test showed that immigration and creating direct jobs were more important variables.