Factors Affecting the Incidence of Learning City in the 6th District of Tehran

Present study aims to investigate the concept of learning city and to identify affecting factors on building this concept in Tehran Municipality, borough 6. To this end, organizational learning and learning organization concepts are initially investigated and then a conceptual framework is devised based on previous literature. It includes five major variables including mission and strategy, creativity training and learning, leadership and empowerment (contribution), communication development and knowledge workers. Literature studying indicates that some main entities should act as learning organs to establish and keep on learning city including municipality, schools, adults’ applied and scientific training centers, universities and SMEs. Then, a 92 – item questionnaire was devised to measure learning city variables in each urban organ in Tehran Municipality, borough 6 and it was distributed among 100 interviewers. In present paper, gathered data was analyzed by Kolmogrov – Smirnov test, single-sample t test for normal distributions and ANOVA. Research findings show scholars’ opinions on the status of Tehran Municipality, borough 6, in terms of the aspects of a learning city. Finally, the importance of learning in city concept is discussed and guidelines are provided to develop learning city concept.