Evaluation of biocompatibility of villages added to the city using network structural models (DEMATEL, ISM, ANP) (Case study: Additional villages of Ardabil city)

Over the past two decades, with horizontal development, the city of Ardabil has witnessed the annexation of surrounding villages to its physical fabric, whether this annexation is forced or planned. With the integration of these villages in the city, fundamental economic, social and environmental changes have been made in the space of these villages to adapt to the city. It is clear that the adjoining context must be compatible with the mother city in order to have a stable composition with the city despite maintaining its original identity, and this study seeks to assess the compatibility of the adjoining villages in the city of Ardabil. In this study, the three main adjoining villages that play an important role in terms of population, size and impact on the city of Ardabil, as a statistical population of the study with a population of about 21,000 people have been studied. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the compatibility of these villages in Ardabil. The research method is descriptive-analytical and the field method has been used to collect data. The data collection tools were residents' questionnaires, expert interviews and field observations which were completed by sampling the statistical population using Cochran's method of 263 as a sample. For this purpose, using network structural models including DEMATEL, ISM, ANP, the adaptation indicators of the target community were evaluated. . The 13 main indicators (with the symbol S) were adapted from three main dimensions of social, economic and environmental according to the review of theoretical literature and interviews of experts as research metrics. The results show: Golmoghan village with an average of 0.09 in the first rank of compatibility with Ardabil, Niar village with an average of 0.07 in the second rank and Kalkhoran village with an average of 0.06 in the final rank are the most compatible with Ardabil. In Golmoghan village, health index with a weight of 0.12, in Kalkhoran village, infrastructure facilities and services index with a weight of 0.19 and in Nyar village, housing index with a weight of 0.17 has been evaluated as the most important index.