Comparative Analysis of Inequalities in Urban Space and Urban Peripheral Spaces, Case: Miandoab

Informal settlements have special social- economic and skeletal properties that are different from the planned neighborhoods. The present research studied the spatial analysis of social- economic and skeletal inequalities (injustice) of formal and informal settlements in Miyandoab city. The present study is applied research and its methodology is descriptive- analytic and the data collected by field survey. Miyandoab city has 10 informal neighborhoods that among them 4 neighborhoods were selected by cluster sampling as experimental groups and 4 neighborhoods were selected from formal settlements as control groups. By using of Cochran formula, 215 households were determined as sample size of informal neighborhoods' households and also the same number were determined from control group or the proportion of households of each neighborhood. The research respondents also were selected randomly. The findings of the research indicated that informal neighborhoods have basic differences with formal areas' residents in social-economic and skeletal indices. The low income, chronic unemployment and absolute unemployment, the low of life's quality and reduced level of participation, low study, the disturbed space of urban form (skeleton), and the standard lack of housing indices … are the gripped features of informal settlements of this city.