Reviving Potential Social Capital of Informal Settlements Using Incremental Housing (Case Study: Zurabad, Karaj, Iran)

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1 MSc. Student, Faculty of Architecture & Urbanism, Sooreh University, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture & Environmental Design, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Considering the increase in an informal settlement among other phenomena, providing development-based infrastructures for urban settlements is an exigent issue to create social stability. The aim of the present study was to review and examine the social values derived from Zurabad neighborhood in Karaj, Iran as an informal settlement, and to provide solutions for identity improvement of the residents of this settlement. The study attempts to prove the necessity of valuing the social identity and to consider the elimination of social capital as the identifying factor among the slum residents. The latter is assumed to be the most significant reason for the formation of settlements of this nature. Also, a hypothesis would be proposed regarding whether the promotion of social capital is contingent on the interconnection with the habitat. According to the results, based on the grounded theory, this type of slum settlement in Zurabad, Karaj, faces with infrastructural, spatial, and social poverty caused by urban development. Providing such infrastructures calls for a model that is capable of incremental and developmental materialization over a course of time, making use of the potential capacities available in the given habitat.

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Social Capital Management
Volume 6, Issue 2
July 2019
Pages 237-253

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