Housing Sustainability in Tehran’s Detailed Plan for Distressed Areas (Case Study: Mazaheri Neighborhood in Tehran 15th Municipal District, Iran)

Abstract

House is one of the primary and basic needs of any family in all societies. In most countries (including Iran) the governments are responsible for providing the house for their citizens. An important aspect in all housing plans is to consider the inability of mid- and low-income families in providing their own needed house independent of the government’s help and support. Accordingly, this research aims to find a solution for the following question: to what extent the suggested housing plans in Tehran distressed areas help fulfilling the sustainability of the houses? The methodology of the research is descriptive-analytical. In this regard we first study and define the concept of housing sustainability and its different aspects through library method to extract the factors of the house sustainability. Then we identify these factors in the distressed fabric of Mazaheri neighborhood in Tehran’s 15th municipal district. Then we compare the situation of the housing in the neighborhood against the suggested plans by the government, specifically Tehran’s Detailed Plan. Finally, we evaluate the scale of housing sustainability in the mentioned detailed plan using goal achievement matrix. The results of this research show that the suggested housing plans in the Tehran’s Detailed Housing Plan has been formulated without paying enough attention to the sustainability. Although this plan relatively leads to the improvement of the physical situation, but it fails to fulfill the expected sustainability. Moreover, among all different aspects of the housing sustainability, we found that the socio-cultural dimension has been neglected more than the other aspects of sustainability.