The Structural – Functional Research of Rural Settlements change in the North of Mashhad Metropolis

Abstract

One of the important shortages of the rural and regional plans in Iran, has been having no regular and compiled program for edges and fringes around the cities. In these fringes the living nature has withdrawal in front of the rush of physical development of cities and specially metropolises. The purpose of this research is a comparative study of the structural – functional dimensions of annexed settlements, in order to present a strategy and attain a desired and suitable framework to improve and settle an affair the situation of settlements encountering annexation. The research is applied and based on descriptive – analytic and inductive and the method of collecting data is field and document. Statistical population is 97 villages in Toos and Tabadkan rural district that has the largest number of annexed settlements and encountering annexation settlements. Data analysis has been done based on deductive statitics approach and Kruskal Wallis test.The theorical approach of this study is based on the Structural – Functional  Research. The result of this research shows that periphery rural settlements have not had desired conditions and has been seen discordant growth of Mashhad causes gradual annexation of periphery rural settlements.According to the findings, the most defects of annexation of rural settlements to city has been in social and cultural issuesand the main benefits of annexation has been in functional relations and structural features. Therefore, by reforming the local structure and changing in spatial function of periphery rural settlements in Mashhad Metropolis,a rural–urban link is established. After all, considering the consequences of annexation and lack of concord of structure and function in these settlements, [according to UFRD Model ] by invigoration the structures of small town or central villages or even establishing township, the duty of  serving to rural regions could be committed to them.