M Amjad - Islamic Azad Khorasgan
S Nejadsatari - Dr.SNejadsatari @ Yahoo. Com
N KHALOO

From the beginning of this century, Iran faced an event named informal settlement which was the result of both intensifying the differences between rural and urban areas, and immigration of rural residents. Informal settlements are special living areas, which are different from other parts of the city in economical, social, cultural, political, and historical aspects. These regions appear as unsustainable areas that are populated with lots of people and lack of facilities. Dissatisfaction, discrimination, having no sense of identification and citizenship are characteristics of spontaneous settlement. The aim in this research is probing some samples of these spontaneous settlements which after the cities’ expansions, remain like an island in the middle of the big cities. They make a lot of problems for sustainable architecture and logical cities’ enlargements. Historical and comparative researches together with documented sources such as journals and library books and researches were used. It was proposed that an effort should be made for creating a better living area which imitates the feelings of citizenship, cooperation, belonging, and belonging to the city for the residents

informal settlement, immigration, sustainable area