The administration of Urban slums in Bandar Abbas

Subject Areas : Geopolitic

Seyed Jamaleddin Daryabary ¹ ( مسئول مکاتبات) )
Heydar Lotfi ² ( ندارد )

Received: 2010-10-30 Accepted : 2011-04-09 Published : 2011-04-21

Keywords: Informal residential areas, Poverty, low-income groups, Urban slums,

Abstract :

The city of Bandar Abbas is considered to be as the most important city in south of Iran. witch is strong political role in Hormozgan Province. According to the Intest used census the population of Bandar Abbas is estimated to be about three hundred and thirty thousands. This mean that the population of the city in the last fifty years shows an average growth of 6.3% and has grown 21 times. With regard to the estimation done almost tow fifth of the population in the city and a least 30% of the structural formal of the city is occupied by the uncommon group of people with low income who have a completely different pattern of social living with other common residents Based on both subjective as well as field studies. Carried out the informal living areas for the uncommon group with low income in Bandar Abbas city are divided in to ten different districts. For this purpose a questionnaire made and distributed among 1200 people who live in the boundaries of these ten districts within different parts of the city, this was done according to random sampling (RPS) which was finally analyzed and the areas in mind were ranked according to poverty indexes and a number of solutions for the renewal of the slums concerned were offered.