The city development strategy with emphasis on improving urban Neighborhoods (Case study: Neighborhoodsof Akbar Abad, Yazd)

Process of urban development strategy as a theory Procedural – Contents And a new approach to urban planning by The Cities Alliance in 1999 with the aim of Reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance participation in urban was raised. One of the main axes CDS approach and attention to neighborhoods of the central district. The approach of the study is descriptive - analytical and The population of the entire research applications (1090) in the neighborhood Akbarabad and field research using a questionnaire and to draw maps from GIS to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats SWOT model is qualitatively. This study shows that Between the per capita standard uses existing neighborhood scale there And the challenges and difficulties faced Akbarabad neighborhood is The most important challenges to be poor in the land degradation, plasticity, impermeability alleys and passages, loss of identity, community, and so on. Finally, to improve the quality of the neighborhood, according to a scarcity of land in the neighborhood, and according to some arbitrary standard, and the use of the proposed solutions were presented.