Spatial Analysis of the Infrastructure Needed for Sustainable Development in Villages of Kouhdasht County

Identification and improvement of the available social and service sites in rural settlements and consciously management of facilities and services are among the main policies of rural development planning which not only help optimal distribution of facilities and resources in rural areas but also make space justice coherent and create appropriate space structure for settlements. The purpose of the research is to conduct a spatial analysis of the benefit of rural agglomerations from the distribution of services in the area studied. The research was an applied, descriptive-analytical one in which library-based research and field study were used for data collection. PSI model was used for data analysis and cluster model test was calculated via SPSS. Then, ArcGIS was used to show the level of benefit of rural agglomerations from spatial distribution and distribution of services on maps. The results indicated that north Kouhdasht and east Tarhan rural agglomerations have better privilege compared with other rural districts. Furthermore, west Rumeshkan rural agglomerations is almost privileged; however, other rural agglomerations under study were deprived and not privileged.