Ali Akbar Rahimian Mashhad - Oikodomos

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governmental investments for low-income housing toward infill development, besides utilizing the available capacities inside the city, the costs of urban development outside the city margins would be considerably diminished (2) . This paper studies housing for low-income people in <strong>Mashhad</strong>, Iran. It consists of three sections. The first section tells us about low-income people who make houses independently for themselves on city margins. This part presents the disadvantages and reasons of the reference of low-income people to this housing style. The second section examines housing by the government for low-income people and providing its budget besides its advantages and disadvantages, while the third section compares both methods. Finally a logical conclusion is presented to reach an optimum method to address this challenge. Introduction The history of housing for low-income people began when unemployed people migrated to big cities in order to work, while due to the high price of houses in cities and their necessity, they made buildings for themselves on city margins in illegal ways on nondivided lands which had mainly agricultural usages. This movement resulted in some problems on city margins. Consequently the government participated in housing for lowincome people to solve these challenges. This paper tries to recognize land localization policies to find an appropriate place for locating Maskan-e-Mehr units to see if it can find suitable places inside the city rather than outside it. For this reason, the following steps are examined: • Finding the appropriate solution for infill development in <strong>Mashhad</strong> city • Evaluating the necessity of growth and development of the urban appearance Methodology There are several methods to reach this purpose including historical, experimental, comparison and documental ones. We want to use the last method, since despite observations and interviews, the necessary data are available. Different types of documents are texts (e.g. books, newspapers, archives, etc.), numerical documents and other documents that are neither texts nor numerical. 2
Concept of infill development Infill development has different definitions all of which share a united concept: • Infill development focusing on building residential units, employment centers and small-sellers inside the urban area. This development may be in various categories (Wheeler, 2003): (1) housing on empty spaces, (2) reusing abandoned spaces, (3) reinforcement and development of available spaces. • Infill development refers to new development in prioritized spaces in terms of investment as well as on empty/abandoned spaces. Figure 1: Infill development before and after implementation Urban infill development is a way of preventing the city growth to its suburbs and rural areas while rather developing abandoned spaces inside the city that somehow renews urban life (EPA (Environment protecting agency), 1999). In infill development, historical textures are protected (Kienitz, 2001). 3
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