Quantitative explanation of effective factors on increasing citizen participation in the beautification of Tehran metropolis

With the ever-increasing population of cities, especially after the Industrial Revolution, the factors influencing the urban management system and human settlements have greatly increased, and during time, traditional methods and non-participatory approaches have lost their effectiveness. Concepts such as participatory approaches have been proposed among decision-makers in the urban management system. The basis of these concepts is decision-making with and for the people. Undoubtedly, a city whose decisions are made without the effective presence of its citizens cannot meet the needs of its residents. The purpose of advancing this research is to identify and explain the factors affecting the two-way communication between people and city officials and the formation of collaborative planning to realize beautification projects to improve the quality of life of citizens in the Tehran metropolis.

This research is practical in terms of research objectives and its method is descriptive-analytical. In general, the method of conducting this research is based on document analysis, content analysis, and meta-analysis. According to the statistical population of the research, which are citizens of Tehran city, 384 questionnaires were completed, and also the interview was used to get information from the managers of the beautification organization. The analysis of the questionnaire was designed to measure the components and variables of the leading research done by SPSS software. to check the reliability and validity of the research, the confirmatory factor analysis method was used to ensure the selected main factors, correlation analysis to find the relationship between variables, and aggregate analysis to determine the amount of variance calculated by main factors

Based on the results obtained from the research, 19 factors have been presented in 4 categories, which include social-cultural, subsistence-economic, administrative-organizational, and legal-organizational.

From the respondent’s point of view, indicators related to the economic dimension with an average of 4.565 have the highest priority, indicators related to the administrative-organizational dimension with an average of 4.368 are in second place, indicators related to the legal-organizational dimension are in the third place with an average of 4.316 and finally The indicators related to the socio-cultural dimension with an average of 4.215 are in the last category. Also, ambiguity in identifying the target groups of actions, legal, administrative, and organizational obstacles, and weakness in creating a culture of participation among the community are the main obstacles to the non-realization of citizen participation in the beautification of the Tehran metropolis