Meeting the Need for GIS Skills in Developing Countries: The Case of Informal Settlements

سنجش میزان آسیب‌پذیری سکونتگاه‌‌های غیررسمی در برابر خطر وقوع زمین‌لرزه با استفاده ازGIS مورد پژوهش: محله زیر نهر‌تراب شهر پارس‌آباد

Most of the large cities in developing countries have faced with the problem of informal settlements. The formation and growth of these settlements for reasons such as rapid and outside the customs building construction are the threatening issue for their communities. Informal settlements are areas that often shaped and expanded in major and middle cities of the Iran’s cities including th...

Understanding Informal Urban Patterns By Integrating Geographical Information Systems (GIS) And Cellular Automata (CA) Modelling

Cities in developing countries are expanding at a tremendous rate and informal settlements (where 40 to 80% of city dwellers live) occur in unplanned urban areas. In planned cities in developed countries, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cellular automata (CA) are favourable tools for modelling urban dynamics. This paper discusses the growth of informal settlements, describes the tools ...

GIS in developing countries: the example of improving informal settlements

A Geographic Information Systems and Cellular Automata-Based Model of Informal Settlement Growth

There exists a vital need to increase our understanding of the fast-growing informal settlements (IS) within the burgeoning mega cities of the less developed countries. Previous attempts have used descriptive speculation about underlying social, political and cultural forces, but they have not generated sufficient understanding to underpin useful and effective management policies. The result ha...

Feasibility of City Development Strategy in Enabling and Regularizing the Informal Settlements, Tabriz metropolis, district 1

Nowadays, informal settlements has become a common challenge in many of cities particularly in Metropolises .On one hand, it is a spatial manifestation of social and economical inequalities and injustice at the local, regional and national levels. On the other hand it is the result of urban planning deficiency, absence of citizenship and inattention to social and economical needs of low income ...