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Assessing the Capacity and Ranking Regions of Varamin City with Infill Development Approach

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Rapid population growth and the spread of fragmented urban patterns worldwide have led to the uncontrolled growth of cities, the destruction of agricultural land, and the emergence of environmental issues. The city of Varamin, as part of the Tehran metropolitan, has undergone scattered and fragmented physical growth in recent decades due to migration, population growth, and development policies. This research aims to assess and rank the internal physical capacities of the city of Varamin. By analyzing the structure and potentials of the city, it has addressed the approach of optimal use of capacities and strategies for achieving sustainable urban development. This research is applied in terms of its purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of its research method, and data and information were collected based on documentary-library and field methods. In this research, 10 influential indicators in two categories of physical (including: dilapidated fabric, concrete channel, vacant land, road network, granularity, building quality, and slope) and social (including: population density, migrants, and historical) were used, and the data were weighted, ranked, and analyzed using the Cocoso multi-criteria decision-making technique, Shannon entropy model, and GIS software. The results of the research indicate that the peripheral growth of Varamin city has led to the abandonment of the city's internal capacities. Finally, the results of the Cocoso technique showed that zone two of Varamin city, with a score of 2.779, has the highest capacity for internal development, and zone one with a score of 2.042 and zone three with a score of 1.674, are in the next priorities, respectively

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Sustainable Development of Geographical Environment
Volume 6, Issue 11
March 2025
Pages 1-20
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