Reducing vulnerability of informal settlements of Farahzad neighborhood against Tehran's possible earthquake

Vulnerability Assessment of Tehran Municipality District 8 against earthquake

Background and Objective: This study aims at investigating the vulnerability of areas in the eighth municipal district of Tehran. In this research, the indices of distance from fault, maximum earth acceleration, soil permeability, landslide, liquefaction, population density, land use, ground floor area, type of building materials, and age of buildings were identified, examined, and analyzed sta...

The Impact of Land Tenure Security on Housing Investment at Informal Settlements (The Case of Eslamabad Neighborhood, Tehran)

In recent years, tenure security has been one of the main objectives of improvement projects in ‎urban poor settlements. Despite lots of international studies initiated in this field, it has received ‎little attention in Iran. The main aim of this paper is to assess the influence of tenure security on ‎the level of household investment in housing. Survey method is considered as the methodology ...

Place Branding; An Economic - Oriented Approach to Empower Informal Settlements (Case of Falak-e-Din Neighborhood, Khorramabad)

Informal settlement as a global urban phenomenon encounters different social, physical and economic shortcomings. These fabrics especially in cities of the global south experience an escalating gap with developed urban areas. In this regard, faltering economy plays a major contribution in continuity of poverty and exclusion. In Iran, Empowerment plan could not lead to favorable and stable resul...

Analysis of Rural Settlements Resilience against Earthquake (Case Study: Marivan County)

Analysis of Rural Settlements Resilience against Earthquake Case Study: Marivan County   Iran is a seismic prone country located over the Himalayan-Alpine seismic belt. Striking earthquakes during the past years and decades are strong proofs for vulnerability of rural areas in this country; loss of lives, damage to buildings, even demolishing villages have been experienced in Iran rural area...

Informal Settlements Upgrading: The Gecekondus in Ankara

Image-Based Reconstruction of Informal Settlements

The improvement of living conditions in informal settlements (IS) is one of the most complex and pressing challenges facing developing countries. In this paper we report on progress towards the automated generation of geospatial databases of informal settlements from large scale, low cost, digital still-video imagery. We focus on shack extraction as the predominant data requirement. In contrast...