This studyattempts to organize urban areas and assess thesuitabilityof SouthEastEntrance of Mashhad by applying spatial planning. Collecting data of the current situation is performed in both indirect anddirect levels of the studyarea. The study area, which is dividedinto threesequencesbased onenvironmentalsimilarity, is surveyed from six aspects of function,traffic,topography, slope, green space andenvironmentalpoint of view and then analyzed according to SWOTtechnique. In thenext step,each layeris evaluated based ona modifiedecologicalmodel. After creating factor maps, the final map of SuitabilityofSpaceis determinedbyoverlappingof alllayersin GIS, the appropriateapproachfor eachsequenceis determined. It seems thatapplying this method inurbanscale, help urban management useappropriate approaches in organizing urban areaswith regard to all of theinfluencing factors.

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