TITLE:
The Effect of Regional Socio-Economic Factor on Development of Heterogeneous Urban Contexts; Case Study: Bandar Abbas City
AUTHORS:
Mohammad Reza Daroudi, Sania Sami
KEYWORDS:
Heterogeneous Context, Bandar Abbas, Regional Management, Informal Settlement
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Building Construction and Planning Research,
Vol.4 No.3,
September
14,
2016
ABSTRACT: Heterogeneous urban development of Iran during current decades along with ineffectiveness
of urban planning system and shortcoming of national development programs
and land use planning have led to many problems of urbanism in Iran so that
heterogeneous and old contexts can be named as one of the problems in this field.
Urban decay is one of the serious and inevitable problems of urban management in
all countries. This study has been conducted to analyze and assess the effect of regional
factors on development of problematic urban contexts emphasizing on socio-
economic indicators in Bandar Abbas City. Having urban macro-indicators at
regional and country level, Bandar Abbas City faces various physical problems which
problematic and old contexts are the most important of them that cover an area of
1033 hectares. Economic issues and heterogeneity within social contexts have expanded
the mentioned problem in addition to physical problems. Methodology of
this study has been analytical-descriptive, data collection method of documentary
information has been gathered from relevant administrative organization such as
Statistical Center of Iran, the Municipality and the Ministry of Housing and Urban
Development, and survey data has been collected through 90 questionnaires. According
to the obtained results of this study, it could be found that social, economic,
political and managerial factors have had effects on formation of heterogeneous contexts
and extensive migration during the current years has expanded problematic
contexts of Bandar Abbas due to its specific regional conditions. Moreover, the obtained
results of this study indicated that heterogeneous contexts had some features
including fine-grained, inadequate access network, impervious, inferior materials
and poor construction of buildings and lack of necessary infrastructure.