Farnaz Mahdavi - M.S. in Urban Planning (Tabriz University- Aras International Campus),
Sajjad Abazarlou - M.S. in Urbanization (Islamic Azad University- Tehran Markaz),
Mohammad Safari Azan Akhari - M.S. in Urban Planning (Islamic Azad University- Yazd Markaz),

The Comprehensive City Planning seeks to program and determine the developmentaldimensions of cities as well as meeting it’s requirements on the basis of predictions and urbandevelopmental purposes. Such a plan is mostly used to extend urbanization rules, controllingthe development of cities along with an inclination to programming systems and coordinatingvarious economical and social districts with respect to the quality of environment andrecognizing natural, social, and economical areas as well as defensive and security issuesfocusing on passive defense. Specifying the defense and security positions and also thedifference between defense, security, and safety is of prime significance in this plan. Thesafety issues are generally dealing with unexpected natural events such as earthquake, flood,landslide, fire and so on while defense and security issues are always raised in case ofmilitary invasions and danger. The goals of the passive defense in such master plans consistof determining how the land use city boundaries, lands, and their zonings are set to enhancethe safety; supplying the required establishments and equipment to reduce the cityvulnerability; taking the passive goals into account based on the cities environment andcitywide regulations; providing the conditions to perform rescue and life-saving operations,emergency evacuation, and individuals’ temporary settlement. The current analyticaldescriptivestudy has two major applications: decreasing the weak-points of towns andreducing the potential danger. In addition, the present research deals with establishing passivedefense rules, criteria and urban land uses in two parts: site selection and multifunctionalareas. The findings have also been illustrated in different tables throughout the study.

passive defense,urban comprehensive development and construction plan, landuse, site selection, multifunctional areas