Spatial analysis of quantitative and qualitative indicators of housing, in the city of Izeh

The accelerating rate of urbanization and population growth in the past three decades in developing countries, especially in Iran, has brought many issues in social, economic and political aspects, and made it necessary to urban managers to prepare a comprehensive plan in the housing market. For such a program, assessing the housing indicators is a necessary tool to estimate the needs of housing sector in the country. Aim of this study is accomplish the spatial analysis of quantitative and qualitative indicators of housing in city of Izeh. Research method is theoretical-applied, based on the goals, and descriptive-analytical, based on data gathering. To measure the difference between the five regions of the city , 9 quantitative and qualitative indicators of housing have been applied. Then, after collecting information and statistical data, the fuzzy TOPSIS decision-making technique and GIS were used. In the fuzzy TOPSIS decision model, zones 2 and 3 with weights of 0.582 and 0.588 estimated as rich, zones 4 with weights of 0.392 and was semi rich, and zones 1 and 5 with weights 0.368 and 0.364 were poor. In general, the final result of this study shows the mismatch between the distribution of quantitative and qualitative indicators of housing in the regions of city of Izeh .