The necessity to reform management of urban development in Tehran

Subject Areas : Geopolitic

A. Sayyaf Zadeh ¹ , Mansoor Badri Far ²

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Received: 2014-11-28 Accepted : 2014-11-28 Published : 2008-06-21

Keywords: Urban Management, Opportunity, challenge, Urban development, Urban&#x0D, &#x0D, theory,

Abstract :

Urbanization and globalization of cities has been an essential feature of the recentdecades. This phenomenon is significant in developing countries like Iran which hasencountered a huge growth in urbanization. This condition has make crises in urbandevelopment management and urban structures.This article investigates Tehran management system and determines challenges andopportunities in this system by investigating Tehran management system to analyzepublic traditional and multi-faceted management features in Tehran. Multi aspectmanagement, housing crisis, marginalization, ground source misuses, councils andmunicipalities are among the most important challenges of Tehran urban management.Considering such situations, management of urban development in Tehran has facedsocial-economical, managerial and incapable development plans and urbancivilization.These conditions necessitate a revelation in managerial system of urbandevelopment in Tehran which can not be accomplished easily and requires a processand “passing period”. This period involves changes in the current managerial systemtowards “planning approach paradigm” which covers progress, flexibility, andadaptability.Based on this planning approach paradigm and manipulated researches, some of themost remarkable approaches in reforming managerial system of urban development inTehran have been introduced.