M.R Mansouri Daneshvar - MSc graduate of geomorphology in environmental planning
s Kankan Khosravi - MSc graduate of urban design department of art and architecture islamic azad university tehran

the objective of this case study was to determine vulnerability levels of urban fabrics aginst earthquake risk using spatial factors. Therefore to classify risk vulnerability zones of the mashhad urban fabric we have used parameters such as ratio of open spaces size of lands differentiation population density occupies aresa by buildings ago of buildings deteriorated urban fabrics proximity to faults and seismic grading of mashhad.

vulnerability, analytic hierachy process AHP,geographic information system GIS,central business district CBD,standard score model