Participation of Tehran citizens in the activities domain of municipality (Case study: citizens of region 4)

Subject Areas : Urban Management Studies

جمال  عبداله پور ¹ (مسئول مکاتبات)
حسن  مختارپور ² (ندارد)
رجبعلی  مختارپور ³ (ندارد)

Received: 2011-09-08 Accepted : 2011-10-27 Published : 2011-06-22

Keywords: participation in urban affairs, Tehran Municipality, social&#x0D, &#x0D, approach, municipality of region four,

Abstract :

Today, most experts believe that the focused urbanmanagement experience is failed and it is impossible without citizenparticipation. So the attraction of citizen's participation is the mainconcerns of the urban new management. Tehran Municipality the oneof the major institutions of urban management has adopted the socialapproach in order to attract the participation of citizens and has takenthe basic steps. The purpose of the present article is to explore thestatus of Tehran citizens' participation in doing activities ofmunicipality (case study region 4).Method: The survey method based on questionnaire was used toexamine this subject. The statistical data analysis techniques such asmean, Pearson correlation and multivariate analysis methods were usedto analyse data.Results: The research results indicate a low level of citizensparticipation that its changes will be explained with factors such asgender, education, knowledge and information on urban management,expected rewards of participation, association membership, experienceand interest in and desire to live in neighborhoods.Conclusion: Municipality can enhance citizen's participation andattract it in doing its activities with different measures based on resultsof this study .