The appropriate approach to renewal the historical center of Shiraz City, Iran

Rapid urbanization is bringing in its wake the urbanization of poverty, as well as pressure on urban land and resources, unchecked, and sometimes unplanned economic development. It remains combined with incoherent policy, a fragmented institutional frame work, lack of political will, and limited capacities of implementing organizations, often results in the neglect and destruction of historic districts within cities. This has been seen both in the developed and the developing world. Developing countries like Iran face to the concept of blighted areas recently due to early stages of economic development. Urban blight it not just a cause but also it is caused of socio-economic changes and improper management too. Renewal our cities is the penalty for neglect.It causes new phenomena such as urbanization, migration and dualism. During the last two decades Iran’s population has increased from 49.4 million in 1986 to 70.4 million in 2006. Urbanization has also grown very rapidly during this time period, in fact, urban population increased from 47% to 68.4 % from 1986 to 2006.The present paper has analyzed blighted areas of central area of Shiraz city, Out of the total area of Shiraz city (18622.79 hectares), 1691hectare (9.09%) area is blighted area which it covers 375.82 hectares of the whole historical area of the city. With the growth of city the central area has shown drastic change in land use as well as in demographic profile. Due to the out migration historical centre the residential area has shown the change of (-12.52) hectares during the period of 1992 to 2003 and the Decennial growth rate have showed the change of -16.48 per cent from 1996 to 2006. This paper give the proper approach to renewal the blights in the central area of Shiraz city which customized to the local conditions of this area based on a set of parameters and finally explain the advantages of this method compared to the other possible approaches