Function changes of rasht city in passing of time

Natural and human events have been influenced on topography, existence, growth and physical development or/and recession and degeneration of our country's cities for the duration of history. Until the Qajar dynasty growth of city dweller population was very slow and cities had slow growth and development. In contemporary era the rate of population growth gradually have been increased due to public health and investment in cities. In ١٣۴١ land improvement and gravitations of presence and residency in city such as services and employment resulted in emigration from villages to cities, At the first of contemporary era economical and social changes accrued in the country which changed the cities feature which also Rasht included in changes and resulted in physical development of city in various aspects. The growth of city dweller population due to presence of emigrants who were entered into city and are working in unofficial economics part of city. This is caused problems such as poverty, suburbia, etc. In the study with utilizing from diagram, table, photo and map we want to find how urban initial core formed and also we wish to find the reasons of rapid growth of urbanism. In this direction with utilizing of historical literature and library and field studies, modern and classical ideas in the field of creation and evolution of cities and ideas of cities structure, we have considered the formation of Rasht and investigated urbanism from two perspective, extrovert and introvert, and also we evaluated the effects of these two factors on future which results of that is rapid growth of that is rapid growth of city basically is clue to extrovert factors of this city is the provincial and regi٨onal growth pole.

Urbanism, Rasht, City, Introvert Factors, Extrovert Factors