Urbanization in Kurdish cities after The Islamic revolution of Iran, case study Saqqez city

Many transformations have occurred in Iranian society. Saqqez has 147,000 person populations in the year of 2011. After Islamic revolution population has been increased rapidly in this sector of Iran and many rural inhabitants come to Kurdish cities especially Saqqez and led to the overthrowing of traditional connections between cities and villages. This condition has been exacerbated after the war with Iraq and political within conflict between Kurdish illegal groups. Furthermore, this research will also compare Kurdish cities in generally and Saqqez city in especially in relation to population growth. In the end of this presented some solve ways.

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► Saqqez is the regional city of the Kurdistan region. It has a 987 km common border with Iraq country. The Western border of Iran was specified by the border commission according to the Goldsmith Plan in September 1871.
► For more than two decades (from 1976 to 2011) the urban population Kurdish cities of Iran has been the greatest growth and thus urban population has grown up to four times as much as the rural population. In these years, the annual growth rate of the urban population has been 4.3% and the rate of annual growth of the rural population has been 1.3%.
► Growth of urbanization has not been a result of the evolution and perfection of economic and social relations and has not necessitated national development; it is not imagined as an index or criterion of development, progress arising from the economic structure.