University of Isfahan Spatial Planning 2228-7485 4 1 2014 05 22 Evaluation of effective elements on villagers' tendency to the merger of villages and creation of new cities. Evaluation of effective elements on villagers' tendency to the merger of villages and creation of new cities. 25 42 15985 FA Aliakbar Anabestani Ferdowsi university of Mashhad Fakhri Sadeghi Ferdowsi university of Mashhad Journal Article 2016 06 14 The creation of new cities in our country is of no old history. However, urbanization process in the late two or three decades has rapidly been progressed and there is a relationship between the process of fortification of small towns and the improvement of rural expansion. In this article, there was an attempt to study effective elements in the villagers' tendency into the merger of villages and creation of new cities. The research method here in this study in the viewpoint of aim is applied and methodologically is descriptive- analytical and correlation, main part of which involves data that have been collected based on field study and by sampling from 179 families in the area. The findings of this study based on the results of one- sample t-test to assess the impact of social, economic and environmental elements showed that these elements have an influence in villagers' tendency to the merger of villages in a meaningful level, i.e. up to 95 percent and in average of 3.4 and 3.6. Besides, the results of two –sample t-test on the effect of villagers' gender on their tendency shows that there is a meaningful difference in their tendency. But the results of Lowen and Kolmogroph- Esmirnoph tests depict that age and education as two variables have resulted in no difference in the villagers' tendency. Having referred back to the findings, some solutions are proposed such as providing employment for unemployed active rural population in small cities in order to prevent the unemployed from migrating to metropolitans, improvement of local markets by the aim of presenting husbandry crops in the small cities, providing facilitation and investment in small cities and providing for the preservation of culture and tradition of rural areas, etc. The creation of new cities in our country is of no old history. However, urbanization process in the late two or three decades has rapidly been progressed and there is a relationship between the process of fortification of small towns and the improvement of rural expansion. In this article, there was an attempt to study effective elements in the villagers' tendency into the merger of villages and creation of new cities. The research method here in this study in the viewpoint of aim is applied and methodologically is descriptive- analytical and correlation, main part of which involves data that have been collected based on field study and by sampling from 179 families in the area. The findings of this study based on the results of one- sample t-test to assess the impact of social, economic and environmental elements showed that these elements have an influence in villagers' tendency to the merger of villages in a meaningful level, i.e. up to 95 percent and in average of 3.4 and 3.6. Besides, the results of two –sample t-test on the effect of villagers' gender on their tendency shows that there is a meaningful difference in their tendency. But the results of Lowen and Kolmogroph- Esmirnoph tests depict that age and education as two variables have resulted in no difference in the villagers' tendency. Having referred back to the findings, some solutions are proposed such as providing employment for unemployed active rural population in small cities in order to prevent the unemployed from migrating to metropolitans, improvement of local markets by the aim of presenting husbandry crops in the small cities, providing facilitation and investment in small cities and providing for the preservation of culture and tradition of rural areas, etc. https://sppl.ui.ac.ir/article_15985_52aa51344dca72cf7e23da8af4b7d134.pdf