Town and Country Planning

Town and Country Planning

Investigating on strategies of decentralization of Iran – Tehran before the revolution so far

Document Type : Research Paper

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Abstract
Decentralization is the strategy which democratizes of the political system and accelerating to achieve sustainable development, which currently has made the executive government circles become a hot issue. Despite the focused concentration of power and decision-making at the center or top-level officials, decentralization make this possibility to deal with low levels issues and problems of they own directly. Thus, this paper uses the method of descriptive - analytic and with a library collection - documents to review tackles decentralization and define the decentralization policy in Iran before and after the revolution program. Evaluation results show that in spite of decentralization policyIn most cases, development programs, unfortunately, these programs have not been successful and convergence has intensified in Tehran. Reality still shows the focus of activities, services and decision-making centers in Tehran. So the solution is to reduce the concentration of political power - administrative and decision-making and management of the local administration and management of provincial to provide the main way to deal with the approach of decentralization and reform of the governance structure and the reduced concentration of Tehran and the development of developing countries, decentralization
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Volume 6, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
Spring & Summer
June 2014
Pages 31-58

  • Receive Date 06 March 2014
  • Revise Date 03 September 2014
  • Accept Date 17 June 2014