As one of the most important and influential urban planning approaches, comprehensive plans can be considered from the different and relevant dimensions and aspects such as the planning system, the content of plans, preparation-approval process, and execution procedure. Hence, this research focuses on the reasons for the inefficiency of comprehensive plans, especially concerning the nature and the substance of this urban planning approach. To this end, in addition to reviewing relevant theories and views, objective instances of the mentioned reasons have been pursued. Therefore, Nowshahr’s Comprehensive Plan was assayed for the ex-post evaluation of plan implementation to assess its efficiency and feasibility in certain aspects, including social and physical dimensions. Following a linear and one-way procedure, inflexibility and lack of realism, single vision and mostly physical solutions, providing too many details based on static and solid frameworks, and the impossibility of accurate predictions are the substantial critical reasons for the inefficiency of urban planning based on comprehensive plans approach. These factors are the challenges that Nowshahr’s Comprehensive Plan also suffers from them identically. The unrealistic approach in determining the city limit, an incorrect policy of using open spaces and increasing density in contradiction with the ecological, touristic, and port nature of the city, failure to realize most of the proposed land uses, and consequently, a severe shortage of service spaces, are among the most apparent objective instances regarding the inefficiency of Nowshahr’s Comprehensive Plan according to the mentioned substantial reasons. Considering the reasons for inefficiency and analysis of the objective instances are an essential strategy that can differentiate the substance of urban plans, especially ones prepared based on the evolution in urban planning and substitution of new approaches, from the old and traditional cases and make them successful more than before.

Increasing technology and population in the two recent decades have led to destructing nature and changing its land cover. Remote sensing is one of those new technologies which provide accessibility for managing earth resources. the dynamic information of remote sensing can play an effective role for monitoring and analysis of land use change using digital change detection techniques. Method used for the rate of development of remote sensing, is on the basis geometric correction, spatial and spectral enhancement of available satellite images with regard to the maximum likelihood supervised classification and post classification method. At first we produced land use maps by using the satellite images of landsat. The results of this study are, in addition to the impacts of environmental sensitivity visualization development trend based on the visual display, calculate of the land use changes together in developed area and production of digital map changes, to support land management.

Regarding to the guiding plans in IRAN for five decades; it’s expected that such attempts in low crowded cities land to an exact planning which be able to quarantine the development of our central cities .The comprehensive planning of cities is mostly provided to boost the standards of urbanization, to control the development of cities, to coordinate different sections of city, and also to know the influential areas of them. In this study, we try to compare comprehensive and guiding plans of Dehaghan to evaluate applicability guiding plan in terms of population, framework and other functions. The research method is descriptive – analytical. The studies showed that the applicability in terms of population which is a foundation for other functions is 70% and about 7000 people are less than suggested. Except affairs such as residential , administrative - securing, religious ,commercial , green space, road net work and agricultural ,Functions other functions have not come into reality in terms of population ,and with regard to the their probability. And this reality represents the guiding plan inability to promote development in terms of the present planning. Increasing of migration because of limited opportunities for occupation, low motivation of people for farming as the result of widespread droughts and insufficient industries in the city; are some of the factors of the urban population decrease.