Iran is one of the developing countries in which the number of urban poor areas has increased
in the past decades with the increase in the rate of urbanization and the spread of urban
poverty. So that currently, planning for housing low-income people and organizing urban
slums, especially in big cities and their surrounding areas, is one of the important issues of
urban development in the country. The aim of this research is to investigate the spatial factors
and its effect on practical zoning for passive defense in the metropolitan areas of Tehran. In
terms of purpose, the present research is applied, and in terms of method, it is part of
descriptive-analytical research. In this research, the desirability of urban poverty in the form of
two indicators of physical poverty and passive defense poverty has been investigated using a
one-sample T-test. Prioritization of the research indicators has been done using the ANP
network decision-making model. ARC GIS software has also been used to display and spatially
evaluate urban poverty at the regional level. The final result indicates that the status of the
index of physical poverty and passive defense poverty is unfavorable compared to the average
of the society, and in terms of the spatial index of poverty, which had the highest score in the
paired comparisons of the criteria, the 1st district of Tehran Municipality (the highest rank)
and so on They are located in the 2nd and 3rd regions. The weak areas in terms of defense
poverty are 18 (the lowest rank), 17 and 19 respectively.