Identification of facilitating factors for the empowerment of Marginalized Neighborhoods of Isfahan (Case Study: Asheghabad Neighborhood)

Marginalization and unofficial housing is a phenomenon that has followed structural changes and emerging socioeconomic problems such as rapid urbanization and unstable migration in most countries, especially in third world countries. Given the increasing volume and trend of such settlements, different approaches have been proposed to solve the problem of marginalization.One of these approaches is to empower citizens to accept citizenship rights and move towards public participation. The overall objective of this research is to identify the factors that facilitate the empowerment of suburbs in Isfahan. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire with 10 general and 45 specialized questions whose validity was confirmed by experts and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha test at 0.852. The statistical population of the study was inhabitants of Asheghabad neighborhood with a sample size of 157. Data were analyzed using SPSS software and structural equation modeling in AMOS software.The result of applying t-test at 95% confidence level with a significance level less than 0.05 confirms the effectiveness of all the variables studied. The results also show that achieving empowerment of the residents of Asheghabad neighborhood by improving effective indicators in five physical, social, cultural, environmental and economic dimensions with covariance weights of 0.82, 0.78, 0.73, 0.56, 0.53 that the highest efficacy was observed in the physical dimension.