The Strategic Planning for upgrading urban settlement Case study: Ghaemie, the neighborhood in Esfahan

Increasing urban population and accumulating wealth and capital and unbalancing in distribution of resources and increasing the gap of income between big cities’ residents with their surrounding, resulted from cities attraction and other places repulsion and consequently increase in migration to the cities. These migrants could not reside in formal area of cities because of economical, cultural and social problems, so as the result of this inconsistency, informal settlement phenomenon is formed. This phenomenon in developing countries has high intensity and results more problems. The examples of these problems are: natural environment demolition, increasing poverty, class distinction, decreasing living condition and unsuitable urban environment. To solve these problems and ordering informal settlement, different approach are used. For example: the demolishing and clearance approach, the accepting of informal settlement resident rights approach and provision of land and services approach. Since these approaches were not successful to solve the problems of informal settlement in the cities, urban upgrading approach, as a new approach has been used. Since 1985 urban upgrading approach has been used in some developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, which using experience of executive policies of this approach, in proportion to other approach has been more successful.