Investigating the State of Good urban Governance in Tehran Metropolis

Document Type : مقالات علمی -پژوهشی

Authors

• Saeid Khatam ¹
• Seyyed Abbas Ahmadi ²
• Mahnaz Khatam ³

¹ PhD student in Political Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

² Assistant Professor of Political Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

³ PhD, Department of Management, Sirjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sirjan, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22067/pg.2021.69157.1027

Abstract

During the last few decades, the social, economic and political links within the cities have faced fundamental changes. Urban governance is a process that is formed based on the interaction between the official organizations and institutions of the city administration on the one hand and the informal institutions of the civil society or the public arena on the other hand. The main purpose of this article is to investigate the state of good urban governance in the metropolis of Tehran and to study the better administration of the territory and the provision of better and more services to the citizens. The research method of this article is quantitative-qualitative. In this study, using six indicators of good urban governance, namely, participation, effectiveness and efficiency, justice, transparency, legality and responsibility, were measured in the study area using a one-sample T-test. The statistical population of the research is the citizens of 14 districts out of 22 districts of Tehran city and the sample size is 370 people who were randomly selected using Cochran's formula. The results of the test indicate that the urban management in the studied area (fourteen districts of Tehran) is not in accordance with the principles of good urban governance and according to the six mentioned indicators, it is not in a good condition, so that each of these indicators of good governance “A” city is lower than the average value of the average rank. Therefore, it can be said that inefficient, centralized and top-down management causes the lack of attention to long-term and strategic plans, the weakness of the structure and position of the Islamic City Council, the non-operationalization of local councils, and the lack of participation of citizens in the administration of city affairs.

Keywords

• Political organization of space
• good urban governance
• urban development
• Tehran metropolis

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