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Abstract

The present article attempts to study the place of four newly - established towns in Isfahan, shahinshahr, Polladshahr, Baharestan and Majlesi. First, with regard to Irans’ urban hirachy, The place of the city of Isfahan is compared to that of 40 other cities in the country. Then an attempt will be made to illustrate the urban hirachies of the four mentioned towns terms of the Rank - size Role, Model. Finally, based on the urban and population pyramide the trend of urbanization in the towns will be indicated. It will be concluded then, that the place of these fours new towns are alternated in all statistics periods and a gap can be seen in urban hirachy of Isfahan, thus the towns could not have met the truly expected situation.

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