A study on the change of a village into a town and exploring its effects from economic, social, environmental and physical dimension.The case studies: Ziarat and Lujali towns of Shirvan County

Planning organizations and the country's construction plan in Iran have considered the large rural areas to be transformed into cities. With the turning of the village into the city, different effects on the different dimensions of the life of the inhabitants of the rural area are created. Ziarat and Lujali towns of Shirvan County are two country's areas which have started turning from the villages into cities. This study aims to examine the effect of the transformation of the village into town on the economic, social, environmental and physical dimensions of Ziarat and Lujali. The methodology of this study is descriptive analytical in terms of type, empirical in terms of data collection and functional in terms of purpose. The population sample size of the study includes 1479 families living in Ziarat and Lujali towns of Shirvan County. The sample size was 195 families which were determined by Cochran formula. According to the population and the average of the families' members, a questionnaire was distributed in two towns. Then, by the use of simple random sampling method, the samples were selected. The data were entered into SPSS software, then, through binominal test, the research variables were assessed based in terms of descriptive statistics. The results demonstrated that the transformation of village into town affects the economic, social, environmental and physical dimensions significantly.