Studying spatial distribution of urban parks of Khoramabad city using Network Analysis and Buffering Analysis

Today, social equality is more important than any issue in urban management and can affect all aspects of citizens' lives. From the perspective of social equality one of the most important goals of urban planning is access and efficiency fair of all citizens to public services. Urban Parks as an important part of urban green spaces can provide citizens with variety of environmental, social and economic products and services. The well- distributed urban parks are integral part of cities that citizen can access to and benefit from them. This project was conducted to studying spatial distribution of urban parks of Khoramabad city using network analysis and buffering,

the analysis was conducted using the maps of three districts of city and urban parks. The spatial distribution of parks in the three districts was evaluated in terms of serviceability indices including service area ratio, service population ratio, and service floor area ratio.

The results showed that per capita urban park areas for 3 districts are 1.76, 1.37 and 2.76 m2, respectively. The simple analysis buffering service area of urban parks was 1693/87 hectares which covers about 47/51% of the total city and total service network of urban parks was 845/06 hectares (approximately 23/7% of the city) that about half of servicing area of the buffering method.

the results of this study showed that city parks in Khorramabad are poorly distributed in relation to population, land use and density of development. This poor distribution must be considered in future plans in urban parks management.