Assessing the success rate of planning and empowering informal settlements with an emphasis on expert opinion (a case study of Zahedan city)

Subject Areas : Geography and Urban Planning

fereshteh sheybani moghadam ¹ , Rahim Sarvar ²

1 - Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Humanities, Tehran University of Science and Research, Iran
2 - Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Humanities, Unit of Imam Khomeini , Ray, Iran

Received: 2019-07-29 Accepted : 2020-08-17 Published : 2019-10-23

Keywords: "Organizational Planning and Empowerment", " Informal Settlements", " Zahedan City",

Abstract :

One of the consequences of the global process of urban growth and development is the formation of poor neighborhoods in the margins of the cities and is one of the issues that has always been the subject of studying and planning international forums in many cities around the world. To address this, the empowerment approach in the 1980s, which considers informal communities not as a dilemma but as a social asset, is to replace empowerment with the culture of poverty. Therefore, the present research studies the success rate of organizing and empowering informal settlements in Zahedan city using quantitative and qualitative statistical methods and qualitative approaches of experts. This research is applied in terms of purpose and nature, which has been used in field studies by interviewing experts. The results of the research show that Zahedan's organization and empowerment plan in the unofficial context of the city according to the financial and municipal funds and citizen's economic capacity are not developed.