How is Housing Located in Esfahan City: Investigation of Households Utilities Maximization effects and Housing Market Distortion Factors

Houshold choices affect housing location and It is one of the most important factors that forms Urbans texture. Therefore Urban Housing texture, based on locating shows the household choice pattern. This pattern, on one hand, is affected by household utility criterions and on the other hand, is affected by limited restraints.This article investigates the residency texture in Esfahan city to examine household locating theory with using population and housing census 2006.This research believes that this theory can not explain the formation of Esfahan city residency texture and location of housing. This is because the housing market is distorted (i.e. disability of housing market to lead the allocation of lands from production of housing to tradable goods with targeting the minimization of transporting cost) in Esfahan city.