Explaining the influential components in cultural Policy-making with the approach of sustainable urban development (case study: foreign languages)

   One of the important topics in the field of urban issues is the concept of sustainable urban development, which is considered as development based on real needs and rational decisions, taking into account various economic, social, political and cultural considerations. "Sustainable development" is considered as a concept that determines the continuous provision of people's needs and satisfaction along with increasing the quality of human life. Urban sustainability, which is consistent with criteria such as social justice, citizen participation and social solidarity, increasing the efficiency of social institutions, promoting citizenship culture and the efficiency of policies and policy-making programs in the metropolitan area and optimizing civil relations, is an ideal for the dynamic quality of urban life and it is a new way of living. The pervasiveness of globalization as a dominant discourse encompasses various aspects of cultural, social, political, economic, and ideological solidarity and homogeneity, and its direct connection to "language" as one of the most important elements of identity makes "foreign language facing" as a challenge in the field of cultural policy-making, with the aim of urban development.

The method of this research was descriptive-survey and data collection tool, a researcher-made questionnaire, including 25 questions. The statistical population of this research includes the cultural, political, social and linguistic elites of the country.

The results of this research showed that cultural policy-making dealing with foreign languages ​​is affected by the most important elements of urban developments such as social, economic, political and cultural components.
 

In this article, the components influencing Islamic Republic of Iran cultural policy-making facing foreign languages with the aim of urban development were explained that has challenged the previous equations and assumptions in the era of the globalization project- according to the opponents- or the process of globalization- according to the proponents.