Empowerment of dysfunctional urban structures in order to sustainable development of Tabriz metropolis from the perspective of sociology of city

The metropolis of Tabriz is facing the phenomenon of informal settlement and suburban and inefficient urban areas. The present study was conducted with the aim of empowering dysfunctional urban contexts for the sustainable development of Tabriz metropolis from a sociological perspective. Four dysfunctional neighborhoods in the metropolitan area of Tabriz, including Chokhorlar, Kazan Daghi, Mollah Hossein Baghi and Shamsabad neighborhoods were selected as a sample of a cluster random method. Data collection tool was a questionnaire and Delphi method were used to measure the extracted variables. The results indicate problems and dissatisfaction in the study areas. Chokholar parish has the lowest satisfaction of the main indicators of urban development, including urban sustainability, urban resilience and governance of local communities. The average obtained for the urban sustainability questionnaire is 2.01, the urban resilience questionnaire is 2.15 and the governance of urban communities is 2.05, which is the lowest value among the selected parishes. After Chokholar, Shams Abad has the lowest average in the urban sustainability variable with an average of 2.39. After that, Kazan Daghi with 2.42 and Molla Hossein Baghi with 2.86 are in the next ranks.