“In” City and Cityless; Ethnography of Marginalization Experience among the Marginalized Residents of Saeedabad Neighborhood (With Emphasis on Economic Dimensions and Power Relations and Urban Management)

Expansion, reproduction and remain of marginalization is one of obstacles of civil sustainable development. Marginalization patterns are too multiplied and affected by local components which make it impossible to prescribe macro policy programs. One of the unique representations of marginalization in Tehran is residential communities which although being grown in city context, are formally and structurally exotic and alien to the city surrounded with. This kind of communities are usually called "colony" that implies the island-like, deprived feature of these scenes. Sa'eedabad district, of Shadabad region, has embodied famous yet neglected colonies. It’s been a while that this district has been a place for visitors of Politician, men and women, and news reporters and journalist who observe less than what should. We have tried in this research to present a sympathetic, ethnographic description from different economic dimensions and power relations and urban management under the circumstance of marginalization experience of residents. The results indicate that the residents are practically deprived of chance of a fundamental change by the structural condition. Improvement in lives or escaping from this Accommodation is an infrequent and rare occurrence. The only opportunity left is implementing the programs to make the change possible by the formal institutions. The institutions' and Urban Management agents' attitude to these colonies which considers them temporal residences, results in "collusion based on mutual distrust and pessimism" mechanism that eliminates the possibility of making fundamental change by these actors.