Good Urban Building Governance in Iranian experts’ Representations (Case study: Tehran)

Urban growth is a vegetative process that crystallizes as an accumulative process, shaping the city spatial structure over decades. In this way, current activities are deposited on the urban fabric through construction, and improve and develop the urban form in response to the changing needs of its time. Since the construction manager at the city level is the city management; and governance is a central issue on the path to sustainable development; the research’s problem is "How to perform a governance system for the management of Tehran’s urban development". In this regard, the scientific descriptions of the country's experts on the realities and desirability of the urban construction management system are considered as a face of truth; and the researcher, in order to understand it, uses the thematic analysis strategy as one of the qualitative method. In this regard, out of 789 sources updated in the country's scientific databases, 65 were methodically sampled. The results of this fundamental research showed that according to Iranian experts, the urban construction management system of Tehran can be considered as "Tehran’s urban construction governance", when it has a respectable, reliable and significant nature. In other words, by pursuing "fair, balanced and empowering growth", it has sought to "solve the physical and spatial problems of the city of Tehran" in order to achieve "sustainable and affordable product"; and follows this path by "relying on endogenous capacities based on local values" by a "cooperative, efficient and collectivist organization" and in "facing the legal-executive challenges of Tehran’s urban management