Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Hadi Hakimi ¹
• Mohammadreza Pourmohammadi ²
• Akbar Parhizkar ³
• Abolfazl Meshkini ³
• Mehdi Pourtaheri ³

¹ Geography and Urban Planning, University of Tarbiat Modarres

² Geography and Urban Planning, University of Tabriz

³ Department of Geography, University of Tarbiat Modarres

Abstract

Informal settlements were formed as the shadow cities after the industrial revolution and the geographical redistribution of population in Europe. Informal settlements were slowly appeared after industrialization and modernization process as a main characteristic of almost many cities of developing countries. However, this phenomenon acted as an attenuating phenomenon in European countries and over the time and in the context of the location they were solved in the heart of the cities. Therefore, this phenomenon is now confined to the cities of the developing countries. Even the cities in developing countries like our country are also feature this phenomenon. Khoy middle city is not an exception of this rule. This research is classified as an explanatory analytical survey. Like most survey researches, this study focuses on a limited sample and the sampling method is the probable classification technique. In other words, all informal settlements in Khoy city are classified into four geographical categories amongst which four districts were randomly selected. The main purpose of this research was identifying the relationship between development and the increase of residents’ numbers in informal settlements and for this the hypothesis of study was that there was a significant relationship between urban and rural development and the increase of residents’ numbers in informal settlements in Khoy. The results indicated that in contrast to the expectations of many researches in this area, the number of residents in informal settlements would increase with increasing level of urban and rural development. 

Keywords

• Development
• migration
• Urban informal settlement
• Khoy