ANALYZING SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES OF URBAN PLANNING KNOWLEDGE IN IRAN AND OTHER COUNTRIES WITH EMPHASIS ON UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL

Urban planning education consists of three main components: knowledge, skills and values. The present research focuses on the evaluation and comparison of urban planning curriculum of undergraduate courses in Iran with 10 countries around the world. To determine the importance of each lesson in Iran, 312 questionnaires have been completed by three groups of students, graduates and professors in the field of urban planning. To determine the importance of lessons in global scale, internet search and site visit, 10 different universities have been used to identify which lessons are being thought. The results show that the basic lessons extracted from literature review are taught at universities around the world. Most of the courses are offered in the curriculum of undergraduate curriculum planning in Iran too. The major difference is the emphasis on the teaching of environmental and social issues. While these are less important lessons in Iran, they taught in all schools surveyed. These differences can be viewed from social and environmental look at the global level against technical view to urban planning in Iran.