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Investigation about the Factors of Life Quality Affecting Resident's Satisfaction in Informal Settlements (case Study: Farahzad-tehran, North Farahzad)
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Abbas, Yazdanfar Seyyed Saba, Khorasani Moghaddam Bagher, Hosseini Seyyed |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | Introduction Due to the uncontrollable process of urbanisation, within the next 30 years, up to nearly twothirds of the world’s population will be living in urban areas. Most of this overwhelming urbanization is expected to occur in unplanned and underserved cities in the developing world. Along with the creation of a great upset for ecosystems, infrastructure, and the capacity of local governments, the most striking aspect of this tremendous rate of urbanisation in the developing world is the extent of informal settlements which provide shelter to as much as 32-85% of the population [9] and may cover up to one third to one half of the urbanized areas of the cities. Informal settlements are the phenomena that exist in many urban parts of the world and it involves problems such as bad living conditions, poor service standards and absence of secure tenure. Since the 1960s, informal settlement interventions have been a hot topic in developing countries, especially Iran and several models have been applied to solve the situation. These areas are one of the most serious threats to sustainable development and affect the resident’s life quality. It seems that, improving the life quality could be a way to achieve the sustainable development goals. Indeed, an increasing life quality policy affects satisfaction of residents, which is one of the main goals of sustainable development. Some of the most common attributes of informal settlements are: they are built without proper professional assistance; built for the larger part by low-income urban dwellers for whom existing formal avenues are hardly realistic options; constructed with local building materials, skills, designs and technology and do not adhere to formal/legal building codes and standards. Based on population density, |
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| Ending Page | 16 |
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| Volume Number | 47 |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
