تحلیل الگوی توسعه‌ی کالبدی-فضایی شهری از منظر توسعه‌ی پایدار (مطالعه‌ی موردی: شهر کاشان)

    One of the critical issues related to sustainable urban twenty-first century urban growth pattern, and today most researchers believe a significant relationship between physical development of the city (urban form) and urban sustainability. So far as the organizing body of the cities under the framework of sustainable development is necessary. The aim of this study is to understand the physical-spatial development pattern of Kashan and its compatibility with sustainable development model . Type of study is applied and descriptive-analytic methods do And the attempt is made taking into account criteria of population, area, density, per capita, in terms of quantitative models such as the balanced distribution of (model Shannon entropy, Gini coefficient), the degree of aggregation (including Moran coefficient) and the model Holdren answer the question.1-Whether physical growth of the city of Kashan in three and a half decades (years 1355 to 1390) has complied model of sustainable development? The results of the physical model survey of the city of Kashan  by urban form evaluation models show the urban form Meanwhile, unequal and unbalanced distribution of population in the city and lack of coordination with the physical development over recent decades, the pattern of Spatial and  physical  growth model Kashan has follow urban sprawl, Followed by negative consequences for the city of Kashan has created sprawl and smart growth strategies are, therefore, needs to use.