Returning the excluded people The emergence of informal settlements in Kermanshah

This article seeks to study the processes of informal settlement emergence in Kermanshah. The theoretical framework of article is based on De Certeau s ideas. He emphasis on everyday action in constructing the urban spaces. He believes each individual is creative and meaning maker. The needed data were gathered through interview, observation and analysis of document. Findings reveal that rural migration from countryside to Kermanshah has happened on the force of 'land reform agrarian revolution". It added 10 thousand people an average annually. The city economically could not absorb all of them. Their state of being poor, illiterate and unskilled incompetency caused them not to be absorbed into the society. Urban planning excluded the emigrants by means of 'Master Plan' practically some strategies such as high meters land. The excluded people who did not have any other choice, had decided to pursue 'other path' and struggling to survival. They have applied several tactics such as forcible possession unutilized lands in outlying regions, re divided land and informal branching of water and power to provide home informally. The outcome of this effortful attempt was the emergence of informal settlements such as Jafar-abad, Shater-abad, Dolat-abad and Koli-abad in Krmanshah.