Abstract



In this study we tried to evaluate the relationship between the type of housing and the accessibility rate to the existing education facilities in Kabul city. The aim was set to find how much do really the type of housing has affected the accessibility to the existing education facilities in the city. The study has been undertaken based on the manipulation and analysis of the geospatial collected data in ArcGIS and Microsoft Excel software. The result of study revealed the influence of the type of housing in accessing the education facilities. Based on our calculation the apartments are the type with the most access to the existing education facilities where the accessibility in the apartment areas are calculated as high as 85%. We also found out that the regular houses, irregular houses and finally hillside houses are the next categories with the best to worst accessibility rate to the education facilities accordingly.