Drawing alternative scenarios of Tehran identity transformation by using layered causal analysis method

Damages caused by globalization and rapid urbanization have shown the importance of urban identity. Therefore, maintaining it is an important issue in sustainable development. The purpose of this study is to change the identity of the city of Tehran with the qualitative method of prospective research (causal layer analysis) in order to deconstruct Tehran's identity and formulate alternative scenarios. The statistical population of this research is 14 people who are specialists in urban planning, architecture and urban sociology, whose views were extracted through a semi-structured interview. Then, by analyzing the theme of the interviews, their opinions were explained in the form of 4 litany tables, systematic causes, discourse and worldview, metaphor and myth. The findings of the study show that in the litany layer, the obvious problem is the identity crisis of Tehran, which is in four categories: "confused, famous, fluid and plural identity, meaningless and soulless", in the layer of systematic causes, "short-term society, speculative spaces, unrestrained spinning, flaming", in the layer of discourse and worldview, "modernism of underdevelopment, urban neoliberalism, global development of the city, individualism " and in the fourth layer, "everything that is hard and stable will smoke and go into the air "The nakedness of poverty and wealth, in the whirlwind of the global city, is the forgotten city". Finally, two drivers of underdevelopment modernism and urban neoliberalism were selected based on importance and uncertainty, and based on that, 4 scenarios were presented that can be considered in urban management process.