The State Council of Tabriz and the New Pattern of City Management

The contrast between the traditional, appointed, non-democratic and inefficient management methods of city affairs in Qajar era and modern ones, which Iranians of constitution Era had recently got acquainted with, caused the formation of democratic and modern civil institution to become one of the most basic desires of the social effective forces in constitution revolution. This led to participating of citizens, removing traditional forces, who were proponents of centralization methods in managing the country affairs, the dominance of elites and the manifestation of city residents, willing and identity. Composing laws related to “village and state councils” and “Municipality council” at the first National consultative Assembly and the formation of these councils in some villages and states was in fact a response to the desires of social forces effective in constitution Revolution. The present research, focusing on Tabriz, by applying descriptive analytic method tries to investigate the rate of Tabriz State Council’s achievement in the materializing the demands of these forces. The finding of this research show that Tabriz council, using a kind of management pattern similar to the local government of modern city, could provide programs and actions which protected the city and state benefits and maintained its identity as the second capital of the country.