Slum Settlements
Kayomars Irandoost; Milad Doostvandi; Kasra Ashouri; seyed mohamad Ghanezade
Abstract
Urban Informality is one of the survival options of low-income urban groups that inefficient formal sector and planning systems have not provided their housing. So housing and the informal sector result from formal discourse and have been formed simultaneously with formal planning. Formal planning systems ...
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Urban Informality is one of the survival options of low-income urban groups that inefficient formal sector and planning systems have not provided their housing. So housing and the informal sector result from formal discourse and have been formed simultaneously with formal planning. Formal planning systems and dominant discourse see this phenomenon as a great challenge and against it, various approaches have endeavoured. Such as neglect, elimination and forced eviction, site and service, public housing and new participatory methods to Upgrading and empowerment and regeneration; most contemporary upgrading approaches have been inefficient in regularizing this phenomenon for various reasons, and at the same time, the rapid development of new slums has shown the inefficiency of urban governance. Meanwhile, some planners are looking for realistic approaches to organizing through foresight and integration with the city, including David Gouverneur, who has proposed an approach called Informal Armature (IA). This approach is a forward-looking design and management that accepts the reality of the growth of informal settlements. Its purpose is to find a middle ground in informal and formal development, accompanied by top-down intervention while accepting the people's views in these settlements (bottom-up).There are some proceedings for the implementation and success of the IA approach:• acceptance of informality in policy• provision land with public and private sector participation• training of staff to implement IA and attention to design components (corridors, patches and custodians).In this paper After introducing the Informal Armature (IA) approach, its application in Iran and Sanandaj has investigated. This paper used data from the population and housing censuses of Iran (1976 to 2016) , aerial images and GIS software, and some previous research. The results show that due to the informal urban dynamics in Sanandaj in the form of three spatial layers and informal reproduction, it is instrumental in paying attention to a futuristic perspective on informal development in the framework of the IA approach.This approach seeks to connect the corridors around the city with the means of design and the potential for informal expansion, and to integrate spontaneous settlements with the city, providing housing for the poor and basic infrastructure. Provide spontaneous urban settlements of the future and thus avoid many current challenges. IA's approach seeks to organize informal growth around cities with the potential for informal expansion with a predictive and forward-looking view, which seems to be practical and beneficial in the context of Iran's urban development.
