Urban regeneration with an emphasis on the improvement and empowerment of informal settlements in metropolitan cities. Case study: Shamsabad, Tabriz

Introduction:

 Many development planners and politicians regard the tourism industry as one of the main pillars of sustainable development, Introduction The prevalence and expansion of marginalization, which has become a problem for big cities including Tabriz in the last 5 decades, now its scope has gone beyond big cities and cities and has plagued the surrounding villages, and the development of this phenomenon has added to the problems of the residents of these villages. Therefore, according to the trend of extensive developments in today's cities of the world, the cities of Iran and Azerbaijan in general and the city of Tabriz in particular have witnessed many changes in architecture with historical value and the way of distribution of activities in the past decades. The role of urban management and planning in preserving historical and unique architectures and creating a healthy environment, economic, social, touristic city, etc. has been effective in making the urban system healthy and balanced.

The current research seeks to explain the regeneration of Shams Abad neighborhood in Tabriz city with an emphasis on improving and empowering informal settlements. This research is descriptive-analytical in terms of its nature and method and applied in terms of purpose. Data collection was done with field and library studies. The statistical population of the research also includes 27 urban planning experts. SWOT and Hierarchical Process Analysis (ANP) were used for data analysis..

The findings of the research showed that sub-criterion S1 means having human resources with a weight of 0.388 as the most important advantage, and among the existing weaknesses, W1 means the inappropriateness of the infrastructure, among the threats, T1 means the reduction of natural resources. With a weight of 0.0195, the most important threat and among the opportunities, O1, that is, the formation of national and regional conferences in attracting knowledge capital, with a weight of 0.270, is known as the most important opportunity to improve and empower the Shamsabad region of Tabriz

Thus, the results show that the trend of marginalization is moving toward being unfavorable, and these findings are in line with our research today, which requires a completely social physical strategy. According to the strategies of the current research, the growth of marginalization should be used in the social-physical direction. However, with the passage of time and the increasing development of technology and the incrsocial awareness, it is one of the most key issues in which time and population growth play a significant role.ease in cultural and