Urban management and its reflection in citizens participation: The case of Hamedan city

Subject Areas : Geopolitic

Somayeh  Safi ¹ (ندارد)
َAsghar  Nazarian ² (ندارد)

Received: 2014-12-06 Accepted : 2014-12-06 Published : 2012-07-22

Keywords: Urban Management, citizen, citizen participation, Hamedan,

Abstract :

The unwillingness of citizens to participate in the activities of city improvment that haslargely rooted in the focused administrative system is of the factors that ability of theauthorities is faced with difficult the needs of urban residents. So attending urbanmanagement to citizens participation in city administration as a means by which can be reacheconomic, social and cultural sustainable development is considerable.Also, Hamadan city with ancient history, is faced with this problem Therefore,in the study,identifing the willingness of Hamedan citizens to participate in the affairs of the city has beenconsidered as new idea in urban management. In this regard, with the assumption that urbanmanagement of Hamedan can be successful only with greater citizens participation, identifingparticipation barriers and citizen education, has been paid attention to the role and functionof urban management of Hamedn.The research is descriptive - analytical, practical and baseddetection. In this method of gathering information and preparing the questionnaire has beenused ,and study population is Hamadan city the volume of the sample according to thecalculations of Cochran is altogether 369.For data entry and data analysis SPSS software hasbeen used .For findings and hypothesis testing of research the Friedman test has been usedand all research hypotheses have been confirmed.As a result,according to the reluctance (unwillingness) of Hamadan citizens in partnershipwith the council, municipality , city administration and social- cultural activities and other,Perhaps can be said ,these are because of lack of growth of social groups and civil institutionsand the lack of necessary opportunities for citizen participation due to weakness of urbanmanagement that by increasing social trust, comprehensive cooperation and strengtheningcollective identity can be hoped to increase the voluntary participation of citizens. Otherwise,and if their citizens contribute a little & fail to this team that our city is our home,areaswon't be created to continue seeking of the participation.