The necessary of conceptual rethinking in Rural Conducting plan

The Rural Conducting Plan (RCP) has provided an arena for physical order in villages including prohibiting illegal constructions, defining needs, designating land-use for public services, and planning for the future physical expansions, however it has ca used some negative consequences for villages and villagers such as weakening the physical texture integration and weak attention to rural resident’s participation. There exist several factors relating to the failure of Rural Conducting Plans to organize the rural systems among them the impact of theoretical approach towards the plan is more important. The said approach is a comprehensive planning strategy based on function-oriented theory. The present paper has a theoretical-fundamental character that applies a descriptive-analytical method. Required data are collected using a documentary method to find and to explain the basic reason (s) of the weak effectiveness of the RCPs. Findings of the present study show that revising and rethinking of the dominant conceptual system of the RCP is a necessity. It is evident that some conceptual theories and strategies are not matched with resolving complicated and ongoing needs of human societies. The paper concludes that a structural-functional strategy that has already been adopted to explain the problems of rural societies can provide an actual spatial planning base for different scales of settlement systems especially rural settlements.