Empowerment Approaches to Urban Fringe Areas, Case Study Informal Settlements Hasanabad in Yazd

Informal settlements are the major factors of creating instability in the cities especially in developing countries. informal settlement is mainly known with the informal occupation of the land and housing, lack of observing the official and conventional rules and regulations of urbanization, severe lack of infrastructural services, physical and demographic rapid growth, dominant informal occupation, structural and installation instability , instable income, appropriate physical bed for the growth of social pathologies and formation of deviant subcultures and creation of social bases of criminals and offenders. This phenomenon has been created due to the growth effect ot urbanization, rural-urban migrations and urban poverty.Enabling approach is a solution that through emphasizing on the endogenous nature of the problem resolving , can provide grounds for reducing the negative effects of informal settlements. This study has been conducted to the aim of empowering the informal settlement of Hasanabad Yazd to provide an appropriate model for its organization. The research method is of descriptive – analytic one and of applied and developmental type. The data were collected through library and documentary studies and also filling questionare and by using factor analysis, the local reqirements were prioritized and soluitions for empowermnent has been presented. While reviewing the studied 34 questions, the effective factors on the sustainable development of the local area was decresed to 9 (nine) factors and with respect to the correlation rate of each loaded question in factors, the appropriate title was selected. These factors cover 67.124 % of the variance , in which environmental factor with19.152 % has had the greatest percentage of variance and training with 3.696 % has had the lowest percentage of variance. Thus, with respect to the percentage of variance, the factors were prioritized based on the severity of the impact on empowerment of the communities as environmental, social, educational, health, sport, participatory, physical, economical, infrastructure and skills training.