Application of the method / technique of decision areas in the recreation of the culture-based urban regeneration with the approach of cultural tourism development in historical sites

The emergence of changes in national and international economies in the last two decades of the twentieth century, as well as the need to modulate urbanization interventions based on local needs, have challenging traditional tools to rebuild cities. The rotation of views from large-scale, project-driven, and state-centered interventions to local rehabilitation, the process-oriented, based on internal capacities and participatory-oriented, is a central feature of urban regeneration. Cultural tourism has become a catalyst for urban regeneration as an efficient and sustainable approach. The main purpose of this paper is to explain the relationship between them using the methodology / analysis of decision areas in the development of cultural tourism in the Zahir Abad , one of the historical district of Tehran 20th municipality. The research method is qualitative and the research has used a questionnaire tool for collecting data. The results show that this method / technique has the ability to broadly connect with a range of factors that influence the process of rebuilding and that the economic strengthening and management structures of the neighborhood which are in the top priority for initiating the rehabilitation planning of the neighborhood.