The Crisis of New Housing Areas in Iranian Large Cities

In summury, this paper is looking to analyse the relationship between the increas of land value (price) of and descreas of the size of housing units in subdivision process. This situation have caused the increasse of high rize buildings in the con¬text of apartment style development in which the building accapation ratio is high and the vacant land for open spaces have been lost. Scondly, in this way, the land for urban facilities including schools, parks, and recration areas have been used for housing development. As a result, the urban facilities for residents became as low as could 6 Imagined, the social intakactive related to housing concept have been demolished. Therefore, living in so called new neighbourhood can be com[ared with living in seprated housing unit, in a desert. This situation, has got pardox in front of………urban planning concepts of housing in Iranian large cities.