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Urban regeneration is the most recent approach to intervene in deteriorated urban fabrics that generally have low quality of life, physical instability, poor socioeconomic status, and unfavorable health conditions, which have made these areas vulnerable to natural hazards and man-made disasters. The objective of this article is to review urban regeneration policies of deteriorated urban fabrics focusing on disaster risk reduction, implementation of these policies, and development of a conceptual framework to achieve the aforementioned goal. In this research, published works on the topic were overviewed with the aim of finding the causes of success or failure of urban regeneration projects focused on disaster risk reduction. Then, the relationship between urban regeneration and disaster risk reduction and the common goals of these two fields were analyzed, and the results were used in developing an effective conceptual framework for the regeneration of urban fabrics with a focus on disaster risk reduction. Studies on the implementation of urban regeneration policies aimed at reducing the risk of disasters reveal the facts that determine the success or failure of the project. Among the lessons learned from these studies, there is a common feature that influences the success of projects and distinguishes disaster risk reduction projects from others, and that is the development of a vision for the place and the accurate assessment of vulnerability in the targeted areas. Accurate assessment of vulnerability in target areas requires a conceptual framework that can be used as a guide map in the assessment. By acquiring a comprehensive knowledge of the target area, one can use the problems as an opportunity to regenerate the deteriorated fabric and reduce disaster risk.

The main purpose of this study was analyzing the spatial development of knowledge-based and innovative in Tehran metropolitan area and provide solutions for balanced spatial distribution due to the overflow of benefits arising from the development of poles and clusters of knowledge and innovation in the region. This research is practical and quantitative-analytical in terms of method. The indices of Gini coefficient of spatial concentration of knowledge-based economic activities, Gini coefficient of regional specialization and average share of the spatial coefficient of knowledge-based activities from all economic activities were calculated by using the collected data from Statistical Centre of Iran. The path analysis was used to extract the experimental path of the balanced development of knowledge-based and innovative in ​​Tehran metropolitan area through regression analysis between research variables in SPSS software, Excel software and Geographic Information System (GIS). The research strategies are prioritized using the Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM) so that finally the superior strategies that have won the most points in achieving the balanced development of knowledge-based and innovative in Tehran metropolitan area would be presented. The results showed that in areas of the region where development through knowledge-based industries is being carried out and has created regional specialization, the Gini coefficient of spatial concentration of these activities is high and regional imbalance has been created, due to the participation of most of the cities in a series of specialized activities such as factory metal products except for machinery and equipment, spatial clustering of various branches of these industries has been done in the cities of the region.

Regional endogenous development can be reached through the interaction of regional entrepreneurship along with other variables such as leadership, institutions, market-fit and resource endowment. In this way, regional entrepreneurship is one of the mediating variables of endogenous regional development and can facilitate the process of achieving development like a catalyst. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between these factors in endogenous development through analyzing statistics related to case study. Therefore, after determining some criteria and indicators related to main variables of regional entrepreneurship (human capital and new knowledge) from various sources, the existing relationships between the indicators with each other, indicators with variables and independent and mediating variables with dependent variable will be analyzed by using methods such as PLS method and structural equations and relying on available and collected statistical data. Since in the research measurement model, the factor loadings between each of the variables and their indicators are more than 0.4 and also the Cronbach's alpha coefficient and the combined reliability coefficient of each of the variables are more than 0.7, as a result, the reliability of the research model is acceptable. Also the average extracted variance of all variables is greater than 0.5, as a result, the convergent validity of the model is also within the acceptable range; On the other hand, the values on the main diameter of the Fornell and Larcker matrix are larger than all the values in the corresponding column. Therefore, it can be concluded that this model has acceptable divergent validity. the structural model of the research shows a regression coefficient of 0.698 between the two variables of entrepreneurship and regional endogenous development at a significance level of less than 5%, which proves the relationship between these two variables and as a result the research hypothesis at an acceptable significance level. At the end of the research and by proving the mediator role of entrepreneurship in the process of regional endogenous development, the development level of all the Tehran counties has been shown based on the research data and statistics, and then policies and action plans aimed at improving the development level of less developed counties based on entrepreneurship have been suggested.

In the age of globalization and information and due to the emergence of a networked society, cities today are known as the main place of production and consumption in the world. Hence, there is a wide competition for financial and human capital among the cities of the world. Due to this, new and innovative concepts such as "place marketing" and "place branding" have been proposed to use the maximum capacity of the place to attract fluid capital. This study seeks to study the theory of place marketing with an urban entrepreneurship approach by studying theoretical texts and global experiences, and by presenting a theoretical model using the "structural equation modeling" method to achieve location marketing with an entrepreneurial approach. A city in the city of Rasht and the study of its spatial requirements in the selected study sample, ie, "Historical and cultural axis of Rasht Municipality" with emphasis on the theory of agglomeration, to explain how to achieve place marketing through an urban entrepreneurship approach. The results showed that based on Pearson correlation, the concepts of promoting place brand to attract capital, private sector participation in entrepreneurship, creativity capital, place knowledge-dependency and vitality of local economy have the highest correlation with dependent variable, ie place marketing through urban entrepreneurship approach at level 0.05. The reliability test of the proposed model was evaluated by two methods. The factor load of each index was above 0.5 which was significant at the level of 0.50 and confirmed the reliability of the model and Cronbach's alpha test for the variables which obtained 0.7 numbers which confirm the reliability of the model.

 Urban areas as an important factor in enhancing energy consumption and CO2 emissions are the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions which are occurring in most cities all over the globe. (Herring, 2012), (Zubelzu & Fernandez, 2016). Cities consume 67 to 76 percent of energy and 71 to 76 percent of CO2, and this amount will increase significantly by 2050. (Van der Heijden, 2016), (Lehmann, 2014) 90 percent of urban population growth occurs in developing countries. Therefore, developing countries are more exposed to climate change. (Feliciano & Prosperi, 2011), (Colenbrander, 2015) Carbon footprint in cities depends specifically on factors such as living standards and income, socio-economic development, urban spatial structure and transportation systems, energy technology and local climate change factors. (Feliciano & Prosperi, 2011),(Huang and atel, 2016), ( Colenbrander, 2015) The collaborative process builds trust, new relationships, and interpersonal networks, and ultimately strengthens a higher degree of social, intellectual, and political capital among the actors who are being involved. The collaborative planning process creates new and more flexible institutions for the development of the low-carbon city (Agger & Löfgren, 2008). Considering the advantages of collaborative planning including promoting citizen participation, increasing transparency in the decision-making system and employing experts and specialists related to urban areas, this planning was considered by the researcher so that it could be used by the participation and cooperation of all stakeholders in the city in order to move toward integrated management.Tehran is one of the most polluted cities in the world. According to the annual reports of air quality in Tehran(Tehran Air Quality Control Company (AQCC)), it has been declared unhealthy for more than one third of the year during the last two decades. (Shahbazi and at el, 2019) In this research, we use the requirements of cooperative planning in Tehran due to achieve a low carbon city. Related to the political, financial, environmental and social situations of Tehran metropolis and its potentials to achieve a low carbon city, this city has been selected as a research case. Due to its political aspect, Tehran is the capital of Iran and all political and planning activities are carried out in it. As a result of this fact, this city always examines urban plans in the higher levels of the city, and in fact it is ruled by a top-down planning system. As a result, it has always paid less attention to participatory issues. From an environmental point of view, air pollution in Tehran, which is measured with a particle size of less than ten microns, is almost four times that of Los Angeles. It should be noted that some of these pollutions were due to tougher sanctions in 2010 due to Iran's inability to import higher quality additives used to produce car cleaning fuel. (Tahbaz, 2016)

 In this research, at the first stage, after analysing the quantitative indicators of the research and evaluating them, the research uncertainties will be identified. For this purpose, Micmac software is used to identify uncertainties; on the second stage, with the help of the uncertainty-impact matrix, the critical uncertainties of the research are introduced. These critical uncertainties should be used in the process of low-carbon Tehran development. In the continuation of the research process, variables for these critical uncertainties are defined and entered in the Scenario Wizard software to obtain possible scenarios. With the help of the scenarios which will be obtained from the software, the scenario writing process begins. In order to achieve a better portray in Tehran in the long run, the DPSIR model will also be used.

 The phenomena of global warming and climate change, on a scale beyond the city of Tehran, is in fact a matter of concern on a global scale. paying attention to these changes and controlling global temperature requires long-term and sustainable planning. As a result, segment and short-term measures cannot reduce the adverse effects of climate change alone. Since addressing climate change is a global issue, it requires holistic attitudes and cooperation with other global cities. Therefore, Tehran was chosen as the capital of Iran for this study. Because according to global statistics, Tehran is the sixth most polluted city in the world, and this highlights the importance to address the issue of low-carbon cities.

By institutional and organizational cooperation as well as the real participation of citizens, it is possible to move towards advancing Tehran's low-carbon goals. It is hoped that by using the principles of participation and strategies to achieve a low-carbon city, Tehran could play a small role in controlling climate change and in fact reducing urban pollutants. Finally, by implementing the strategies which are mentioned in the article, we can move towards a low-carbon Tehran. In this regard, urban institutions should participate and cooperate with each other and citizens should play an active role in urban decision-making. In general, the following suggestions are made in various financial, social, environmental and physical sectors: In the financial sector, the growth of start-ups and microeconomic sectors with the support of the government and private organizations In the social sector, creating spaces in urban parks in order to gather people and present their opinions on urban day topics.In the environmental sector, allocating municipal budgets for the construction of solar panels in public organizations and requiring urban industries to plant various green species around factories and urban workshops In the physical part, the supervision of Tehran Municipality on preventing dispersal and development of urban disorder It is hoped that by using this research, a step could be taken towards a low-carbon Tehran.

New findings of philosophy of science question and challenge positive concepts regarding the inclusion of conditions of knowledge, neutrality of observation and data’s independence from theoretical interpretations as well as the distinction between natural and social sciences in a serious manner. In contrast to positive approach, data, theories, and different disciplines, like ethics have expanded as a part of social and historical contexts. This outstanding effect has developed with the help of different approaches, including contributive postmodernist and neo-pragmatic approaches. The mentioned developments in the field of thought, directed social sciences and planning towards post-positivist situation and highlighted the ethical contexts of planning; this effect is traceable in the application context of planning. The purpose of this paper is to express the features of planning theory within the framework of post-positivism, and, also to explain the contexts of involvement of ethics in the field of planning, in its broad sense, as well as the way it affects the planning process. The result of this paper is presentation of the process of new work in the planning process based on attention to new ethical contexts that distinguishes this process from the previous ones, which were regarded as value-free. Also, for practical evaluation of this paper’s hypothesis, the dominant approach of the Five-Year Development Plans of the country has been carefully studied as one of the mid-term planning documents. The findings of the research indicate that value-freeness of these plans is traceable and it sheds light on the necessity of revision of these plans from this perspective.

Land development as one of the main policies of land planning in Iran has been defined in urban planning system. Following that, the definitions of land development and preparation plan have been explained in the relevant laws and instructions and have been considered by urban planners. The subject of land development since the 1990s in global experiences and attempts were made to redefine land as a rare and valuable commodity And new agendas such as land sovereignty were introduced in this area. Analysis of existing documents and programs in the field of land preparation plan and its implementation processes in Iran indicates disregard for the conceptual changes of the land and the mentioned changes and taking an unsuitable path in determining and analyzing the goals and problems. The main purpose of this study is to track the problems resulting from the development and implementation of land planning process and according to the characteristics of the problems that these programs generally face and the multiplicity and diversity of stakeholders involved in them, it is necessary to have a method that can track all required problems. Therefore, the selective problem-solving process method used in this research is purposeful problem-solving which Itit provides an opportunity to express the views of different stakeholders that is done by using data collection and analysis techniques as well as thematic content analysis. Finally, the main disadvantages of the preparation and execution process have been identified and in three axes, macro suggestions are presented based on group problem.

Achieving urban and regional development through increasing efficiency of plans is one of the most important objectives for states in the 20th Century. Following the end of World War II and the need to rebuild devastated cities, the comprehensive planning model was criticized for its purely physical, inflexible, and incompatible attention to the rapid changes of urban settlements. Therefore, simple - comprehensive planning replaced with a rational-comprehensive approach, which provided a strategic attitude. In the planning system of Iran, which devised comprehensive planning, it became clear to the planners that rational – comprehensive programs were not realized. Thus, strategic-structural planning was introduced and supported which led to prepare strategic-structural plans for some metropolises including Tehran. The lack of legal and institutional redefinition of this approach in the planning environment (Tehran) caused the preparation process of the plan encountered some problems during the planning process and affected the realization and achievement of the project goals. The purpose of this paper is identifying the institutional deficiencies and contradictions of the Tehran strategic-structural plan (TSPP) with the principles and values of the strategic planning framework to increase its feasibility and efficiency. In order to achieve this goal, first, the present study determines institutional criteria to compare TSPP with strategic planning which can increase the effectiveness of planning institutions. Secondly, a comparative analysis is carried out to determine inconsistencies of TSPP with the main principles of strategic planning. Based on the achievements of this paper, despite the tendency and attention towards institutionalism at all stages of the plan preparation, the plan (TSPP) lacks any action to improve this approach and, in this respect, needs to be revised in both areas of quantitative and qualitative requirements to be realized within the framework of strategic planning.

This article attempts to review and explicate Planning ethics concept, largely as articulated by exponents of the practical ethics, in terms of the planning theory. The paper can be read in a sequence of a larger argument about planning ethics and it makes more urgent the existing critiques of planning theories without ethical direction. We develop –based on thematic analysis method - how professional ethics codes in planning produce important issues that must be considered. So at the very core of the article is an attempt to recompose of the ethical view about planning tactics in the decision-making process, to break out from idealism of conventional planning theory to make space for the insights of realistic thinking about planner behavior. The article argues therefore that the idea of problem-oriented ethics in planning can go realized.

Today the field of urban design has emerged as an important area of intellectual pursuit, involving theory, research, and pedagogy, all intended to inform and improve practice. Also, there has been a progressive differentiation between urban planning and urban design. How has this differentiation occurred? This article calls for a return to planning values in contemporary increasing differentiation between planning and urban design. A direct explanation of urban design nature -without stumbling into a simplistic anti-design approach- is a necessary step forward in understanding of differentiation trend and real values in planning process. This article reverse the imposing perspective of neoliberalism, global competition and new urbanism to trace reassertion of planning values (such as public interest and social justice) through explanation of fundamental tension between design and science and changes in planning process. It signals right from that an intention to tamper with the familiar interpretation of urban design theories to shake up current flow of theorization to allow other, more radical thoughts to be emerge. The article will conclude that planners and policy-makers should be involved with public vales more than anything else and considers both fields (urban design and planning) in a neoliberal dominated world of global competition, particularly as personified by the diversified visions produced by the New Urbanism.

The instrumental and technical view wieldy assumed in planning theory and practice that planning can and must be limited to the value free consideration of alternative public policy means. Iran planning structure followed from this view and neglected from this fact that planning is a moral endeavor in which planners must make ethical and value-based choices. However, interconnectedness between values and planning process, in recent decades have been most influenced debates in planning theory and argued that value free planning is impossible in principle because planning is essentially affected by discourses. This article argued that question of values is an inescapable part of the planner behavior, and hence its purpose was to identify conceptual framework of planner’s values in Tehran metropolitan planning environment. The argument was presented through constructivist grounded theory method and two key issues: the relationship between values and discourses and values survival in specific planning environment. The data for analyzing of mental elements of planners by semi-structured interviews with 28 planners were provided with experience in the planning environment of Tehran metropolis and answering questions related to their lived experience in the given environment. “Blurring the academic values in professional work environment”, planner agency in practice of planning values” and “directing the individual and institutional values through dominant discourses” are the three categories which depict the picture of planner’s values in planning environment of Tehran metropolis. The article concluded by arguing that values in planning is about situated ethical judgment and conceptualization of values survival in shadow of discourses that raises significant issues in relation to ethical judgment notion in planning debates.

The twentieth century obsession with communication, as Habermass described it, has been affected planning theory and practice. Communicative action as a new approach in planning theories in pursuit of critique of positivism dominance and quantitative approaches in planning in the last of 1970s and through this view that procedural planning theory should be oriented to social welfare goals, considered as a progress in procedural planning theory. Nonetheless, procedural planning theory also for sake of ignoring power relations and its mechanism in society from planning researchers has been criticized as a tool for facilitating the neoliberal ideology. Critics believe that the public in this kind of planning has been become to private sector partners for reproduction of capital and the real people- no part morass in society- excluded from this kind planning. The goal of this paper is to discover the unknown areas of collaborative planning with application of the beginning of politics concept as new formulation of real politics and approach for rediscovery of people. Exploring of casual relationship of research subject-collaborative planning and the application of the beginning concept for critiquing it- constitute the basic framework of paper and this matter shows explanatory nature of this paper. Also exploring unknown areas of collaborative planning represent the explorative essence. Independence of politics from government construct contingency characteristic of politics and social field. This fact results in reference to people politics energy which has not been revealed and this energy has solved in intra power groups and capital owners and prevents immanent movement. This article calls for a return to Lacanian perspective in contemporary communicative planning theory and analysis, but rather than traditional critique, it argues for a critique predicated on the psychoanalysis of Lacan and “The real concept. It signals right from that an intention to tamper with the familiar interpretation of planning theories to shake up current flow of theorization to allow other, more radical thoughts to be emerge. According to this approach, planners and policy-makers should be involved with conflicts and agonism more than consensus building. At that point in history, planning theory was dominated by systems that upheld rational approaches which gave planning processes priority over the possible results. Some like Mouffe and Laclau were among the chief detractors and critics of this approach who saw it as rooted in an apolitical basis. Lacan provides an explanation for this challenge based on his theorizing about human subjectivity— how we acquire the identifications that constitute ourselves as planners. The article will deploy Lacan’s explanatory power for understanding how the professional identities of planners and the central ideas constituting the planning discipline are interrelated. Particularly, Lacan’s theoretical model of the four discourses will be used to explore planning education and how aspiring planners acquire and internalize the discipline’s often-diffuse sets of traditions, beliefs, knowledges, and values. In this article, I will trace a reconfigurative path through the Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory, picking out the hidden narrative that has instigated the contemporary reassertion of antagonism and conflict in planning. My intent is not to erase the historical discussion about consensus in planning decision making process but to open up and recompose the territory of the communicative planning through a critical reference to antagonism in planning.  As will be evident in this article, this reference and reassertion of conflict in planning theory and practice is an exercise in both deconstruction and reconstitution through Lacan and Mouffe viewpoints. It cannot be accomplished simply by appending spatial highlights to inherited planning theories perspectives and sitting back to watch them with logical convictions. The article argues that a Lacanian inspired phronetic model is particularly useful for understanding spatial planning and related urban policy discourses, for it provides insight as to how desire and resultant ideological fantasies shape our shared social reality and spaces of habitation in our globalized world. Why is it so difficult to define concisely the meaning of ‘planning’ and many of its dominant concepts—public interest, new urbanism, sustainability or smart growth—when deployed in formulating urban policy? Lacan’s discourse theory suggests an answer based on an understanding of our human subjectivity, a subjectivity that implicitly seeks to overlook contradiction and ambiguity in our desire to fulfill human aspirations for a harmonious and secure world. This article will use Lacanian theory to examine the beliefs of the planning profession, how they are shaped and then implemented in our urban environments. This article, maps out a new political approach in planning theory and practice that is deeply rooted in the real concept of Lacan and the political concept of Mouffe that applies equally well to critical planning theory and to decision making process. The fist fruit of this approach – and the first lessons of planning theory that embodies it – is the idea that planners can understand planning environment uncertainty, complexity and conflicts only by locating himself within antagonistic environment. This approach enables us to grasp real practice and theory and the relations of stakeholders in planning and decision-making process. I draw upon Lacan’s depiction of what is essentially a real imagination in planning to illustrate the logic of antagonism that help realization of planning decision making process.

Traditional social science often fails when deployed to explain complex human action. In each specific social field of human endeavour¡ including planning¡ experienced actors draw on a range of conscious and unconscious performative knowledges to act with effect: the experts simply ‘know’ what to do. Some thinkers¡ suggests that to understand these complex human dispositions framing practice requires a detailed understanding of the particular¡ not the universal. Drawing on Aristotle''s intellectual virtue of phronesis¡ Also¡ planners and social scientists refers to this as a phronetic social science model. This article suggests that Lacan''s theoretical insights and conceptualizations pertaining to the split human subject¡ divided between symbolic consciousness and unconscious affect¡ can help to empower this phronetic model. The article argues that a Lacanian inspired phronetic model is particularly useful for understanding spatial planning and related urban policy discourses¡ for it provides insight as to how desire and resultant ideological fantasies shape our shared social reality and spaces of habitation in our globalized world.
Why is it so difficult to define concisely the meaning of ‘planning’ and many of its dominant concepts—public interest¡ new urbanism¡ sustainability or smart growth—when deployed in formulating urban policy? Lacan''s discourse theory suggests an answer based on an understanding of our human subjectivity¡ a subjectivity that implicitly seeks to overlook contradiction and ambiguity in our desire to fulfill human aspirations for a harmonious and secure world. This article will use Lacanian theory to examine the beliefs of the planning profession¡ how they are shaped and then implemented in our urban environments. In particular¡ Lacan''s central theoretical premise of the Four Discourses will be explained and related to planning policy formulation. That is¡ how planners'' acquire and internalise the discipline''s diffuse sets of values¡ beliefs¡ knowledges and traditions¡ prior to then imposing them as urban policies on society.
Can you succinctly and clearly define what planning and many of its guiding principles —such as the public good¡ sustainability¡ or even market forces— actually mean? For many of us¡ this is difficult to accomplish. Lacan provides an explanation for this challenge based on his theorizing about human subjectivity— how we acquire the identifications that constitute ourselves as planners. The article will deploy Lacan’s explanatory power for understanding how the professional identities of planners and the central ideas constituting the planning discipline are interrelated. Particularly¡ Lacan’s theoretical model of the four discourses will be used to explore planning education and how aspiring planners acquire and internalize the discipline’s often-diffuse sets of traditions¡ beliefs¡ knowledges¡ and values.
in fact¡ This article examines Lacan’s psychoanalytically derived social theory as to its appropriateness for understanding aspects of planning practice. Lacan theorized not only about language and culture¡ but also about that which resides outside of symbolization and underlies human desire¡ to provide an understanding of human subjectivity¡ identity and motivation. We discuss how a Lacanian critical social theoretical approach could be pertinent to analysis of the complex mixture of hybrid processes – technical¡ collaborative and political – that comprise planning development assessment.

Researches in exploring of driving forces of regional endogenous development, concentrate on subjects which have been so controversial. Regional endogenous development (RED), together with other core regional development concepts, is usually focused on the sub-national regional development process of the home country. This paper attempts to conceptualize and examine regional endogenous development model for Iran’s regions. The work presented here contributes to the design of a regional endogenous model which is tested in Iran by assessing the domestic forces and drivers of development based in 30 Iranian regions. The paper introduces a conceptual model for the study and then develops and tests the model with data for the primary regions of Iran. Large and positive correlation is found between measures of latent and explanatory independent and dependent variables in the regional endogenous model. Specifically it is found that such endogenous factors as institution, human capital, entrepreneurship, leadership, innovation and resource endowment are critical driving force for achieving increased regional productivity and thus tailoring of polices to support regional endogenous development and growth.

In this paper, the management of Islamic cities in the urban economic spaces and also the contemporary cities are viewed from three different looks:
First, the history of urban management through corporate institutions; second,  the modern systems in European and American cities such as BID (Business Improvement District); and third, structural changes and urban management in the business space of the cities during Pahlavi I and II eras.
Through the first look at the history of the rule of the cities and urban management during the Islamic rule, we encounter structures and institutions whose main characteristic was self-autonomy against the government; sometimes they were also a coordinator between people and the government. Corporate councils and organizations governed the economic system of the cities which had its own special hierarchy such as corporate masters including workers, and students and a trustful elderly acknowledged by the city sheriff deputy and head of the corporate and neighborhoods who was introduced by the city sheriff. These institutions were functioning properly at the time; hence, corporate councils played a significant role in management of the cities and neighborhoods and specially the bazaars, independent of business organizations. These councils which were located near bazaars and mosques facilitated rising of Khums and Zakat or urban tax-collection system.
The first major, and obvious, question in a discussion of BID reforms is what “governance” and “good governance” mean. Despite its popularity the concept of “governance “is highly ambiguous and excessively broad, and has remained so today notwithstanding numerous attempts to clarify it. Indeed the elasticity of the concept is suggested as the key to its attraction, as some thinkers traces the intellectual context of the emergence of “governance” in academic and policy discourse: the notion of “governance” had an a priori attractiveness as it could refer to complexities entailing a good deal more than administration or management, namely the element of political restructuring and the handling of this, while at the same time including the administrative-management dimension. It opened the window for a focus on how “politics” or the political process was conducted and embedded within larger structures. The concept introduces the political dimension into an otherwise technocratic discourse of public issues but in such a way that allows more flexibility than an explicitly political approach. In practice, it enables the user to maintain a camouflage of political neutrality when necessary as governance discussions span the vast space between the political technical continuums and may hence be adjusted more towards one end or the other as circumstances require. The expansiveness of the concept goes further as governance literally can mean many different things to different people. We must summarizes the diverse meanings in the dimensions of substantive content and character. Along the first are those who define governance as basically the rules of conducting public business on one end, and those who see governance as the activities of steering public affairs on the other. The second dimension contrasts those who emphasize governance as process, and those who see governance as results or outcomes of public decision-making. Each of the various meanings – rules, steering, process or outcome – consists of highly variable contents.

To improve the business, corporate, spatial, and local auto governed and participation of all stake holders of the corporate in urban spaces, BID is proved to be effective in European and American countries. Proportionate to such changes, the urban management changed from the traditional methods of the corporate councils to corporate unities and corporate and the relevant state offices and corporate unities played a significant role in management of the corporate sections of the cities.
Since the 1990s, planning engagement with urban governance has sought to theorize space, scale and state strategy through multi scaled analysis of political and economic activity as a series of situated and context specific processes. A focus on multiple spatiality’s of state activities has led to ‘strategic-relational’ consideration of state power as social relations via a focus on the interplay between institutional forms and political forces. This approach shies away from focusing on national institutional structures and/or individual actors or organizations, instead considering ‘local political leadership’ in order to theorize broader structural changes. In reviewing geographical work on Islamic urban regime theory, regulation, growth coalitions and so on, which has considered how urban politics and policy are formed through public-sector and private sector coalitions of power which shape the ruling shows that research has concentrated on ‘functional equivalences’, not comparing institutions/actors but instead comparing similar modes, patterns and processes of governance.
Based on the past experiences of the entities managing economic sections of the cities and incomplete Modernism experience of urban development in the last 90 years, the paper attempts to localize and develop a new approach such as BID based of Iran conditions and experiences in order to assist the management efficiency of Iranian cities

Endogenous development, as a capability of a society in mobilizing domestic resources, along with the transition of traditional material economy to knowledge-based economy, have radically changed growth theories. The endogenous development, which originally was a guidance tactic for national decision makers and planners, has been attracting attentions in economic development at local level from the late 1990s. The main purpose of the article is to explain the endogenous development and to identify a new approach to endogenous development in the field of planning; these require us to identify the necessities to apply institutional approach. Henceforth, by analyzing the changes occurred in economic thoughts and the emergence of intuitionalism in development, and also by emphasizing the role pf endogenous development in these processes, the theoretical principles of traditional vs modern view to local development will be revealed. The findings indicate that employing the institutional approach in planning for endogenous development, advances the interactions between government and people, and improves bottom-up relations, and people’s control on government decisions; moreover, it helps to form an integral approach with regards to local development, which is the very aim of any endogenous development.

Collaborative planning is considered as a progress in the procedural planning theory. Critics believe that the public in this kind of planning has been become to private sector partners for the reproduction of capital and the real people- no part morass in society- excluded from this kind of planning. The goal of this paper is to discover the unknown areas of collaborative planning with the application of the beginning of politics concept as a new formulation of real politics and an approach for the rediscovery of people. Exploring of the casual relationship of research subject-collaborative planning and the application of the beginning concept for criticising it- constitute the basic framework of paper and this matter shows explanatory nature of this paper. Also exploring the unknown areas of the collaborative planning represent the explorative essence. The independence of politics from government construct contingency characteristic of politics and social field. This fact result in the reference to people politics energy which has not been revealed and this energy has solved in the intra power groups and the capital owners and prevents the immanent movement.

In this article, the “urban network and inter connected area “was introduced as an approach to add the spatial and location dimensions to current regional planning practices. With inquiry of theoretical framework of those approach, this article is going to try to show the weakness of traditional method about hierarchical clustering of settlement. Also applying new approach about Qom province and determination of hierarchical clustering of settlements in this province is another purpose of this article. Outcomes of the article show that new approach with special highlight on spatial and location factors is precise method in relation to tradition method.

Urban decay is the process whereby a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude. It may feature deindustrialization, depopulation or changing population, economic restructuring, abandoned buildings, high local unemployment, fragmented families, political disenfranchisement, crime, and a desolate, inhospitable city landscape. Also urban decay has no single cause; it results from combinations of inter-related socio-economic conditions—including the city’s urban planning decisions, the poverty of the local populace, the construction of freeway roads and rail road lines that bypass the area, depopulation by suburbanization of peripheral lands, real estate neighborhood redlining, and xenophobic immigration restrictions. Tehran Metropolitan is confronted with the urban decay problems and urban regeneration is issued as the last policy for reduction of this problem. In relation to this matter 15th municipality urban district has been selected as a case study which contains complex urban decay.Determination of priority of intervention in decayed blocks is basic purpose of paper. Boolean logic, factor analysis and other statistical methods have been used for achieving and fulfillment of those purposes. Outcomes of this paper demonstrate that giving special attention to economic and social criteria with physical factors simultaneously, is essential for determination of intervention type in decayed blocks in 15th municipality urban district.

History of Persian cities is an important research topic focusing on the nature of settlement in an ancient civilization. Nevertheless, such research is quite recent and is often conducted for other reasons. About half a century ago, research on this topic was based on the Marxist theory of Asian Mode of Production focusing on economic analysis. Much of recent research is still based on this approach. This reductionist method of analysis is not sufficient for thorough comprehension of the social life of the people of the past. There is rather a need for a holistic, phenomenological analysis. There is an analysis method in Structuralism called ‘historic anthropology’, which integrates research in history with mythology. This is a promising method for study of societies whose history is closely linked to mythology. This paper demonstrates that analysis of such a complex subject requires methods beyond classic approaches.

One of the most prevalent analytical methods base on macro-economic which has been experienced and designed in order to cognize the regional economy structure up to now is regional economic base theory analysis method. In this method regional base economy is recognized as main regional economic sector and it’s ration in total employment and production surveyed. The basic sector which produces and distributes goods and services for export to individuals or firms from outside the local area; and, the service or nonbasic sector whose goods and services are consumed entirely within the local area.Therefore in this method there is a need to estimate the amount of production and employment in different economic sectors.The main goal of this article is to estimate the amount of employment in basic and non-basic sectors and analyzing economic structure of province base on economic base theory analysis for ten years term.For achieving this goal,first of all basic activity is recognized by breaking up major activity groups to produse sub-sectors, and estimate them by locational quotient technique. And then base on calculation ten years growth rate for each of base economic sub-sectors, total employment in basic and non-basic sectors has been calculated.At the end the result of this calculation has been used for analyzing the future economic structure of the mentioned case study. Key