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Davoud Abbasi Karejgan, Mahmoud Reza Asadi,
Volume 1, Issue 3 (7-2013)
Abstract

Empowering citizens, recently, takes a pivotal role in urban management participation. Therefore, the current research aims at investigating into the relationship empowering citizens and participation in managing cities and, also, offering methods for empowering citizens, encouraging them to more cooperate and to actively participate in managing cities. The research is applied, purpose-wise, and follows a descriptive surveying method. To collect data, a questionnaire has been utilized and the research population was all above-15-year-olds dwelling in the district 18 of Tehran municipality. Via random sampling and upon Morgan table, the sample size was decided to be 384 participants. Research data were analyzed descriptively and inferentially. The results show that there is a significant positive relationship between empowering citizens and their participation in managing cities. Moreover, the results show that the extent of empowerment and participation is lower than the average. Based on the obtained results, it is argued that any measure to empower citizens and to improve their participation is necessary and any effort to empower citizens to improve the extent of their participation in managing cities will be effective and beneficial.


Rahim Bordi Anamoradnejad, Sima Bouzari, Soudabeh Hosseinidoust,
Volume 1, Issue 3 (7-2013)
Abstract

Nowadays, public participation is considered to be the key for the development of human societies in the way that with an increase in human groups, citizens’ cooperation in the sustainable development of the city is highlighted. The current article aims at investigating the role of personal features, such as education level, occupation type, and the duration of residency in the city, in the extent of participation in sustainable development of the city of Amol. The city has 54144 households from among which 300 ones were randomly selected. The research method is descriptive-analytical and to collect the required data deeds and field research were utilized. To analyze the collected data, ANOVA and one sample t-test were used. The results indicate that the citizens of the city of Amol have inefficient participation in sustainable development of the city, that there is significant difference between the duration of the citizens’ living in the city with their inclination to participate in the city’s issues, and that there is a significant difference between the extent of inclination of public participation in terms of occupational and educational status.


Azita Rajabi, Jafar Hesarinejad,
Volume 1, Issue 4 (10-2013)
Abstract

Heterogeneity between urban structure and the requirements of the population has given way to cultural and social problems which are sometimes insurmountable in a way that the range of social, economic, and cultural changes has extended to political domains. The absence of a management and planning system and of a democratic supervision, in a centralized one-way approach, affects planning and surveillance system and gets the urban management into trouble. Therefore, implementing a unified local, regional, and cooperative management would be rendered impractical and the plans for democratic and identified urban development would lose practicality and legitimacy. In other words, the structure of city management is in line with the structure of country management and there should be correspondence between the two structures. A city, as a part of national sovereignty, has a general nature which has various components. Due to such properties, the city requires macro-management at local and national levels so that the balance of city development and its correspondence with the whole structure of the country could be maintained. Therefore, the government, via rules and regulations, takes the role of a leader of macro-policies and the municipality is responsible for multilateral planning for the whole system of the city and is the supervisor for implementing the plans for neighborhoods and regions which help keeping to the structure and regulations of the city.  The current managerial structure of the cities in Iran does not correspond the participation of people in managing cities. The purpose of this article is offering proper methods of increasing citizens’ participation in the structure of urban management. To this end, utilizing comparative-descriptive research method has been suggested to help actualizing public participation while observing the features of Iranian culture and following the successful structure of neighborhoods and cities, hence, to create the basis for utilizing the benefits of such participation, non-governmental companies have been introduced. Naturally, the new structure will face legal obstacles, technical regulations and standards, planning and management methods, current organizations of municipalities and some state institutions, and the absence of job-description models. With reforming current municipal regulations and structures in favor of the new structure, it is expected that the new structure, in the framework of city-, neighborhood-, expertise-, and processed-based strategies, recreate the structure of the cities in form of identified neighborhoods and regions and make them a better residential place for todays citizens.


Ata Ghafari Gilandeh, Chiman Musazadeh, Navid Ahangari,
Volume 2, Issue 7 (7-2014)
Abstract

According to increase of urban population in recent decades, if we want to response to modern requirements and share of resources for future generation in the development of cities, we should do a plan for managing the cities based on conscious participation of citizens. District based citizen participation in urban management is one of these fields and the main goal of this research. The methodology of the research is descriptive, analytical and survey. We also used research tools such as interview and researcher-made questionnaire to collect data. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for reliability was 0.86. also the validity of the questionnaire of teachers was positive. We used Vikor technic to analyze data. Usually this model is used to assessing the options that simultaneously prioritize the criteria and finally are a base for following conclusions. Bukan’s population -the statistical society of this research- based on the Census report of 1390 is 171773 people and the sample size of the research was 4oo persons that was calculated by Cochran formula and selected by random. The result shows that the citizens are not satisfied from the level of their participation in the Districts and this reflects the lake of their participation in their districts. Also the role of institutions (NGOS, City councils and associations) are at the second level of their dissatisfaction. Final level of dissatisfactions is at the group of urban management that based on points received in the model, shows the relative satisfaction of citizens. Since we have discussed the participation of the citizens of the city managers in this article, the performance or non-performance of urban managers, could not reflect an Optimized city. So, by creation different institutions at the district level, we can end to a stable relationship between the residents and urban managers (city council and municipality).


Seyyed Kamal Sadeqi, Shalaleh Sobhkhiz Zenozi,
Volume 3, Issue 11 (9-2015)
Abstract

Absorbing finances from the private and foreign sectors for implementation of municipalities’ projects are counted as valid methods of providing financial resources in urban management field. Currently, one of the main approaches in urban and rural management fields in the country is reducing dependencies on governmental aids and dues and moving toward identifying T stable earnings and new instruments of providing financial resources such as: attracting domestic and foreign investors.

The main goal of this research is studying the effective factors on the participation of private sector providing stable financial recourses for municipality projects. According to the collected data, part of the potential investors do not participate in urban projects, therefore, using usual econometric methods have incompatible results. In order to estimate the parameters of this function, Logit and Probit method based on the maximum likelihood function is used. It is necessary to mention that for estimating function, Stata software is used. The statistical population is Tabriz city and its municipality. Required data were collected via survey method and the instruments of data collection were questionnaire and field findings. In this study, random sampling method was used and for determining the required sample size Cochran formula and Morgan table were used. The findings of this research show that factors such as improving business environment and efficient laws which guarantee the profit of private functionary make private sector increase the implementation of urban projects, and the presence of bureaucracy and lack of suitable capacity building delay the process mutually.


Zahra Nejadbahram, Seyyed Hossein Mirzadeh,
Volume 8, Issue 32 (12-2020)
Abstract

Decayed areas and historical districts are one of the most important issues in the urban planning system of our country so that a significant budget is spent every year for the renovation and regeneration of these  neighborhoods. But Experiences from last projects show that although despite the renovation of buildings and private spaces, the population of these areas has migrated to other neighborhoods of the city. This study suggests the "habitation worthiness" concept to explain the various aspects of urban life which lead people to settle in or migrate from the district. Additionally, it attends to the vitality of attentive districts. To this end, this study has used documentary study and content analysis, and also descriptive and logistic methods to review the literature and compare the evidence and concepts from studing the documents, respectively. The findings of this study show that "habitation worthiness" is a concept beyond the quality of life and should be considered in the process of urban regeneration. The “habitation worthiness” addresses all biological, physical, cultural-social, economical and environmental aspects of human habitation and provides indicators for evaluating urban projects and plans in each dimension. Consequently, ignoring any aspect is resulted flaw in the "habitation worthiness" and migrating the people resettled in these districts.

Reza Javadian, Seyyed Mogtaba Abroodi , Hamid Reza Ali Mohammadi, ,
Volume 10, Issue 37 (3-2022)
Abstract

The old and old textures of the cities of the country, which often form the primary and main core of cities, on the one hand, are considered as cultural and historical ramifications of those cities, and the preservation and renovation of the labyrinth and their functional empowerment is inevitable, and on the other hand, most of these tissues, with the passage of time and lack of proper attention and maintenance, suffer from productive and functional exhaustion and dissolution. Tehran municipality's 15th district has an old texture and is faced with problems such as the inappropriateness of the width of the road network, the severe exhaustion of the housing buildings, the grading of small and very small parts. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting public participation in order to renovate the worn-out texture of District 15 of Tehran. The research method is descriptive-analytical method which is used to collect information from documentary-library and field methods. Data collection tools were questionnaires and field studies. The statistical population of this study is citizens of District 15 of Tehran who were selected by cochrane sampling method, 384 people were selected as statistical samples and available randomly. To evaluate the normality, The Clomogrov Smirnov test and for data analysis, t-tests of t-takmons and dispersion coefficient, ANOVA and independent t were used and Friedman test was used for prioritization. The results showed that citizen participation has a depending on accelerating the process of reconstruction of worn-out texture of district 15 and priority, economic, physical-infrastructure, urban, social, cultural and environmental factors have the greatest impact, respectively. Also, comparing the opinions between age groups, education, job and between two groups of tenants and tenants, all agree with the effectiveness of public participation in the improvement and renovation of worn-out textures. Thus, in the renovation of the worn-out textures of Tehran's 15th district, almost no group of respondents opposes modernization.


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