A Geographical Analysis of the Problem of Random Housing in The City of Koya

• Main Author: Kamaran T. Saeed
• Format: Article
• Language: Arabic
• Published: Koya University 2019-12-01
• Series: مجلة جامعة كويه للعلوم الانسانية والاجتماعية
• Subjects: beheaded settlement; city plan; informal construction; squatter housing; urban fabric of the city المستقرات السليبة; خطة المدينة; البناء الغير الرسمي; إسكان واضعي اليد; النسيج العمراني للمدينة
• Online Access: http://jhss.koyauniversity.org/index.php/jhss/article/view/103/61

The study touched the origins of the problem that at the beginning of the 1930s the housing units in the old city were converted into the ownership of the inhabitants. This case then augmented in the 1950s and rose again significantly in the 19805 to worsen after the large migration to the city and the increase in the value of rents. This led quite a few of households with limited income to infringe the state or agricultural land that was not intended for residential use due to poor municipal control. In recent years, the city of Koya has witnessed a boom in population, urbanism, and terrain not seen in previous eras. However, this housing boom was often built at the expense of the agricultural lands surrounding the city, some of them without the official approval of government agencies. Even if these housing solve the problem of housing crisis; most of those interested in development are aware of the impact of informal construction or random slum as some call, which means cracking the physical environment through the distortion of the visual image because of the lack of aesthetic values in the design of residential buildings and road engineering and in terms of land consumption and depletion in a non-developmental way, sometimes even disruptive to development. Random housing has increased and spread around large cities, which is constantly increasing due to the increase in population and the aspiration of young people to own an independent home, as well as the concentration of service institutions in urban centers, especially from the villages near the city of Koya.