Identification And Prioritization of Integrated Metropolitan Area Management Indicators (case Study: Mashhad Metropolitan Area)
محورهای موضوعی : Creative City Designsetareh tazehdel 1 , esmaeil shieh 2 , Seyed Moslem Seyedalhosseini 3 , kyomars habibi 4
1 - PhD Student, Department of Urban Planning, UAE Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2 - Full Professor, Faculty Member Islamic Azad University, West Branch of Tehran, Iran
3 - Associate Professor at Department of Urban Design & Development,Art & Architecture Faculty, Mashhad Branch,Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
4 - Associate Professor, Faculty of Kurdistan University,sanandaj, Iran
کلید واژه: Integrated Management, Metropolitan area, Neo regionalism, SWARA,
چکیده مقاله :
The management of metropolitan areas requires correction. Special organizational structures or arrangements must be created and stabilized for metropolitan area management. In such areas, the managerial domain of the metropolis must be a correlated complex of singular and separated units, so that harmonious regional policy-making will become possible. This article has been carried out to identify and rank the indicators of the integrated management of metropolitan areas. Considering the practical objective and the procedure, the research method for this article is of the survey type. Questionnaires have been used in two stages in this article. The experts of urban area management have been chosen as the statistical population. The sampling method is purposive. SWARA method has been applied for analyzing. SWARA is one of the multiple attribute decision making (MADM) methods. Results of summarizing theoretical topics, show that 9 criteria such as planning integration, institutional and organizational integration, decentralization of resources and authority, assignment of affairs to lower ranks, legality of policies, law enforcement methods, collaboration networks, presence of a council and the operational and executive authority of managers are effective in achieving integrated management of metropolitan areas. These 9 criteria include 17 indicators. Furthermore, between the identified indicators, four items, namely the presence of a coordinating organization for various managerial domains, with final weight (0.67) the existence of a common protocol and outlook, With final weight (0.204), policy-making on a metropolitan scale and the municipalities’ With final weight (0.07), independent budget from the central government, With final weight (0.029), have the highest importance, respectively.
