Investigation of dimensions and trends of the squatter settlements in Iran (Case study: Tabriz province)

Abstract

Abstract . Squatter housing in the Iran should be considered twin of rapid and heterogeneous urbanization and cause it can be found more or less along living compulsory part of the process of urban development. This phenomenon followed by a poor and sick economy and, it shows face of urban areas ugly and intensifies the duality in urban areas, adds the slope class and causes many other problems. Accordingly, in this study by documental and analytical method and with the aim of investigation of dimensions and trends of the squatter housing in Tabriz as one of the metropolis has been published. Results showed that suburbanites of Tabriz are settlement and establish in the worst parts of city, in the unusable and tuberous land the city, adjacent to the watercourse and wastewater canals, in the area of discharge and the accumulation of garbage, on rugged ground, on hills, in foothill and on the fault line and in general, in the dirtiest, most dense and the worst environmental conditions. In fact, these by choosing the marginal life and work in marginal jobs, have been determined marginal fate for themselves.