Document Type : case study
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Professor in Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Associate Professor in Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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MSc in Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Achieving development requires a balance in the city that manifests itself in the form of spatial justice in the city. Establishing social justice and spatial justice are the solution to many shortcomings and anomalies in the city. In this process, informal settlement and spatial inequality are considered as centers of instability and conflict which are related to each other through similar processes. This study aimed to investigate the structural factors affecting the spatial justice indicators of informal settlements in Tehran's District 2, through doing factor analysis, spatial statistics in the GIS environment, a comparative comparison of spatial inequality of informal neighborhoods, and analysis of social, economic and welfare-physical indicators of these neighborhoods. The results show that the neighborhoods of District 2 of Tehran are not in a good condition in terms of having the studied indicators. The neighborhoods of Shahra-Gharb and Punak are in the best condition and Islamabad and Farahzad are in the worst condition of the mentioned indicators. In contrast to the low-income neighborhoods such as Islamabad and Farahzad, in high quality neighborhoods, some prosperous people use different interests, which shows relatively precise engineering, science, technology, architecture, etc. (production of a space resulted from welfare). In contrast, a space that is formed only on the basis of simple needs of the poor is declining in every day (producing a space resulted from poverty), contributes to the increasing inequality of Islamabad, Farahzad, and even Kuhsar neighborhoods. This indicates that in some neighborhoods, the simultaneous existence of money, capital, power, rent, etc., dominates the space and causes the formation of unequal space in the whole region and adjacent areas in the spatial structure of District Two.
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