h Majedi - Department Of Architecture and Urban planning, Science and Research Branch, IAU
Z Davoudpoor - Department Of Architecture and Urban planning, Qazvin Branch
B.M Kermani - Department Of Architecture, East Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran

As urbanization goes on , developing suitable rules to obtain an optimized policy for absorbing overpopulation in metropolitan area and reaching balanced urban development becomes more essentialand creating new cities (according to contemporary patterns)could be a main part of the policy. Meanwhile several new born cities have been formed which had already been villages , and now are facing rural and urban immigrants ,but they suffer from lack of urban facilities ,substructures andsocial services. The main objective of this paper is recognition and evaluation of social ,physical and economicalcharacteristics of two case studies in Tehran province (Andishe and Malard),surveying their problems specially from resident’s point of view , comparing characteristics of these two residential areas , thenpreferring building new cities rather than changing villages into cities to maintain ecological characteristics and protecting rural agricultural fields by considering correct locating of new cities ,eliminating shortage of them ,and training their residents.Finally as the factors influencing the process of urban development are complicated and wide spread and building new cities is not the exact solution of urban organization problems, it suggests mean subsidiary cities with high service and suitable accessibility for surrounding villages’ residents

Andishe, Evaluation, Malard, Mean subsidiary city, New town