Examining National, Regional, and Provincial Plans and Programs Based on Regional Approach: The Case Study of Gilan Province Plans From District 1 of Land Use Planning

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1 PhD Student of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Professor of Geography Department, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 Professor of Geography Department, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Guilan, Guilan, Iran

Abstract

As the distinguishing boundaries between upper and lower levels, regional plans and programs have an effective role in bringing about coordination between planning levels and improving their effectiveness and functioning. Due to the importance of planning and the results obtained from regional programs, the study at hand set out to examine plans at national, regional, and provincial levels based on regional approach with an emphasis on Gilan province plans. In this study, qualitative research method was used, and to classify the existing knowledge, the required data was divided into research analysis units, namely the plans and programs at the three foregoing levels. These were then analyzed using content analysis and document analysis methods in NVIVO 12 software. After data analysis, 96 open codes were achieved. The homogeneity of the open codes of each of the three levels led us to extract the main axial code titled “region-oriented approach in plans and programs at national, regional, and provincial levels” along with three other secondary axial codes, namely “holism and movement toward abstract and stereotypical concepts and issues,” “regional plans following macro plans,” and “lack of a regional decision making mechanism at the province level.” It is noteworthy that the highest regional approach presence was found at province level with 49 open codes.

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Town and Country Planning
Volume 14, Issue 1
Spring & Summer
April 2022
Pages 1-24

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  • Receive Date: 02 November 2021
  • Revise Date: 18 January 2022
  • Accept Date: 18 January 2022

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