Identifying and Assessing the Extent of Urban Poverty in Maragheh Locals

The city as a city dweller needs to provide standards that poverty is not only one of the most important issues in the world, but also one of the most important domestic problems of all societies, whether wealthy or poor. The extent of poverty, inequality and environmental differences patterns in large metropolises are the results of a dual economy with free market capitalism rule in these cities. Urban spatial structure expansion and incoherent, irrational focus on different parts of the city and its facilities and services, economic development, social inequality in them. Maragheh urban space reflects the socio-economic imbalances and the spatial extent of poverty in the Border areas of the city. Therefore, the present study deals with the analysis of poverty and its spatial distribution based on social, economic and physical components. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and is quantitative-analytical in terms of its nature and method. The data collection method is documentary-library and based on the data obtained from the statistical blocks of the Population and Housing Census of 2012, Based on 18 indicators in the form of three social, economic and physical components, it has analyzed the spatial distribution of poverty in Maragheh locals. In order to achieve the above goal, urban neighborhoods were graded using Wicker methods and Shannon Entropy and then the poverty distribution map was drawn up. The results show that 11.54% of the neighborhoods in Maragheh are very poor, 26.92% are poor, 42.31% are average, 11.54% are affluent and 7.69% are very wealthy. The results show that there are disparities between the blocks in Maragheh, where crystallization of social, economic, cultural, physical distinctions have been seen, additionally, unequal economic, social and cultural opportunities between residents of Kermanshah were found.