Status of Atmosphere, Community and Societal Security in Southern Suburb of Tehran (Case Study: Islamshahr)

Residence of around 8 million people in informal habitations or poor neighborhoods is among the major challenges in urban planning and management system in Iran. The origin and the reason of its expansion can be analyzed through looking into various constituents ranging from macro to middle and micro levels in relation with economic, political, managerial, legislative and demographic conditions, which are scientifically considered and reviewed within the framework of various theories. Chief among them are theories of immigration and lack of balance in various places. Among somatic, economic and social bottlenecks of informal habitations; societal security is considered to be one of the most basic challenges. the present article aims at reviewing the dimensions of atmosphere, community and 1- Naja Deputy Societal Division, Faculty member, Police University and Azad Islamic University.societal security in informal habitations. Therefore, the case study of Islamshahr, located in southern suburb of Tehran, is selected for this purpose. The research is of applied-expansion type, in which some documentary and analytical tools, field visits, interview, and questionnaire completion and analysis used for testing the theories used. The findings of the research indicate that societal security in informal habitations is a subordinate of some constituents such as atmosphere, community and socioeconomic and managerial structures, and improving its level is subject to following up and implementing an integrated series of macro, middle and micro strategies. Chief among them are implementation of the approach of security and community-oriented police, and gradual process of eliminating the tradition of suburbanization, and struggling for establishment of nationalregional balances, and decreasing the parameters affecting ecologic separation process.