Investigating the effective factors on the public cooperation in the urban development (the case study is Ilam City)

The cooperation is of high importance as the main element in achieving the goals especially in order to reach the urban development. An important matter in urban planning in Iran is how to promote the permanent cooperation of people in all parts of urban planning. Some of the most important factors which must be considered in all plans including the economic development, social development and cultural development are the role of public cooperation in development and the mutual relation between the government and participants in development. Thee cooperation is considered as the most important factor in urban development. In other words, reaching sustainable urban development is impossible without the public cooperation. The aim of this study is to investigate the effective factors on the public cooperation in Ilam’s urban development. The method is analytical-descriptive. The population includes all the neighborhoods in Ilam city. The sampling method is the Stratified Random Sampling Method. The reliability of the questionnaire was evaluated .974 by Cronbach’s Alpha. To analyze the data, LISREL software, SPSS software, the statistical tests of made equations and Spearman Correlation were used. The findings reveal that the public cooperation has a positive meaningful effect on the urban development in Ilam City. Moreover, social affiliation and the amount of public cooperation, solidarity and people’s interactions, the amount of people’s satisfaction of their lives and their tendencies to the cooperation, gender and also education have a positive meaningful effect on the urban development in Ilam City.