Political and structural barriers to change the role of municipality from services provider to socio-services agent

Subject Areas : Urban Management Studies

محمدحسین  بوچانی ¹ (ندارد)

Received: 2014-09-10 Accepted : 2014-09-10 Published : 2011-12-22

Keywords: Urban Management, CSR, Social responsibility, Decentralization, local requirement, local councils,

Abstract :

One of the most important challenges facing municipalities as a key element in urban management is how to organize relationship with administrative and operational organization that located in a city. Local integrated management implemented just in a case of creating and adjusting a relationship between municipality and other organization as well as local and national division of works. Although the history  of municipality-oriented urban management system exceeded more than 100 years, but because of deficiency in political and institutional structure’s and also reliance on oil revenues Couse to institutionalizing the concentrated system in managing of countries affairs.. this situation seriously in conflict with urban sustainability and good governance principles. Urban management in Tehran from starting point of forming of councils till now has taken a community-based approach because of relationship with social structure’s and also perception of daily exceeding socio cultural, economic and environmental problems. Apart from greatly exaggerated out comes, we could see this change in attitude in accepting of corporate social responsibilities(CSR) in municipality oriented urban management that is in compliance with the global  situation and going ahead toward  good governance pattern. This study in addition to assessment of the context of this attitude change in urban management try to analysis challenges facing to the political and structural arena in Tehran. Methodology in this article is analytical and the needed data gathered by documentary methods. The results of study shows that the most important necessity to achieve the optimized and defined situation in urban management is to review in inter and intra organization relationship in municipality of Tehran in compliance with CSR.