• google scholor

  • Views: 2699

  • PDF Downloads: 56

Evaluating the performance of urban management in community sustainable: Case Study in area of Narmak - Tehran

Mohammad Habibi1 * and Amir Hosein Pourjohari1

1 Department of Urban Planning, Shahr-e-Qods Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.9.2.29

Uncontrolled urban development that was coincided with the Industrial Revolution, make living in a city faced with new problems that were completely antithetical to sustainable development. To solve this problem, administrators, planners, and urban management in general, have prepared plans for development. Because of their unresponsive to urban neighborhoods, development plans and because of their upward to downward processes, these development projects were incapable of solving problems, and many of them have failed. On the other hand, for better urban governance, participation of all actors in both public and private sector and civil society were essential. In addition, on this level of cooperation, leading to ready all actors for culture governance of democratic were realized. This study investigated the role of community-based management in achieving sustainable urban development deals and has analyzed social stability in four dimensions including cultural, economic, physical and environmental. Study area, was a neighborhood of Tehran, in the area of eight, Narmak. The research was a descriptive - analytical study and collecting information and data were performed in the form of documents and survey. The results suggest that the effects of urban management on stabilizing neighborhoods, in physical and environmental aspects, are quite tangible. However, with regard to social and economic dimensions, this effect was more diminished. Certainly, the role and power of urban management in social and economic dimensions could be obtained more sustainability for Narmak neighborhood.

Neighborhood Management-Centered; Participatory; Sustainable Development; Narmak

Copy the following to cite this article:

Habibi M, Pourjohari A. Evaluating the performance of urban management in community sustainable: Case Study in area of Narmak - Tehran. Curr World Environ 2014;9 (2) DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.9.2.29

Copy the following to cite this URL:

Habibi M, Pourjohari A. Evaluating the performance of urban management in community sustainable: Case Study in area of Narmak - Tehran. Curr World Environ 2014;9(2). Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=6288

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.