Rezvani, Mohamad; Mansourian, Hossain - In: Social Indicators Research 110 (2013) 1, pp. 147-170
In the past few years, developing small cities, by promoting villages to towns for instance, has been considered as one of the main policies for improving the Quality of Life(QoL) in the rural regions of Iran and with this aim in the last few decades, a large number of rural centers have been...