evaluation and zoning of physical resilience of the tehran’s district 12 against natural disaste

evaluation and zoning of physical resilience of the tehran’s district 12 against natural disaste

one of the problems world's cities facing with natural disasters.one of the main goals of urban planning and design isnecessityreduce vulnerability of cities against natural disasters. recognitionthe vulnerability of urban districts against natural disasters is very necessary in order to strengthen resilience and reduce the vulnerability of theme.tehran’s district 12as the oldest district and the main source of the city of tehran, and the district has large amount of important functions (the great market of tehran and embassies and tourist buildings, etc.), which physical condition of structures and buildings( physical resilience)is unfavorable. therefore, in order to description this situation and assessment and identification of the physical resilience of the district we used 5 indicators; the life buildings, the height buildings, the number of buildingsfloors, the area of parcels and the width of streets.the research method of this paper is quantity and the purposeof that is applicable.data collection method was library and field observations.then, in relative to the purpose of this research, we surveyed and evaluated the physical resilience of tehran’s district 12 that finally, by the ahp technique and gis maps, we showedthe district physical vulnerability