Discovering the Roots of the Inefficiencies of the Rules and Regulations of Iran's Urban Development Plans

There are many criticisms and suggestions in the field of urban planning laws and rules and regulations of urban development plans, but the roots and context of the emergence of such rules that have been criticized or proposed to amend them are not clear and have not been addressed. The purpose of this study was to reach the sources of problems and inefficiencies in the rules and regulations of Iran's urban development plans.

Data collection was done by documentary research method, in the form of open codes related to criticisms, inefficiencies, and suggestions presented in 200 written documents between 2000 and the end of 1400. Axial organization and coding, code selection, and categorization were performed following the data-based research method and with the help of Access 2016 software. The research process and results were confirmed with the participation of 5 experts and evaluation based on 9 Cresol questions.

The study showed that the roots of the mentioned inefficiencies go back to the category or fields of vision, governance structure and organization, a system of formulation and approval, rules-rules and regulations, planning institutions, and  Legislative authorities each of which has smaller categories and their central codes are theoretical base, manpower, theoretical shortcomings, the inadequacy of supreme laws, shortcomings of institutional elements and approach and theoretical shortcomings, respectively.

The results of this study indicate that the shortcomings and inefficiencies of the rules and regulations of Iran's urban development plans have multiple roots that, when clarified, pave the way for their correction. The axis of the six constructive fields is paradigm transition, respectively; Politics and lack of cooperation and coordination; Participation, the interdisciplinary nature of urban planning laws, inconsistency of elements and inconsistency of views and approaches, which have been the cause of inefficiencies due to inadequacy in words and lack of common language.