Explanation of Structural Challenges of Urban Development Strategic Planning in Isfahan metropolis

The structure of urban development planning in our country has non-flexible, inefficient foundations and a functional geometric approach that theoretical and methodological inadequacy of its paradigm, namely planning focused on its weaknesses and inefficiencies, confirms more and more. In this process, the strategic planning approach has transformed the planning structure into two parts of the decision-making, decision making and flexible, transparent, participatory decision making in the field of urban development design. The application of this approach requires recognizing the priorities, influences and challenges ahead to understand its existing reality in the urban development process. In this regard, the present study has been carried out with the "application-development" nature and with the "descriptive-analytical” methodology. The sample population of the research is 50 experts and elites related to the research topic selected in a targeted Delphi manner. The analytical tool of the research, due to the goals, is the FLLS model and the structural equation modeling AMOS. The results indicate that: policy making as the most important stage in the decision-making strategic structure and the stage of reforming and reviewing the plans as the most important stage of the decision-taking strategic structure with the highest priority for structural changes in Isfahan metropolis. Explaining the Structural Relationship of the Structural Steps to Explain the Strategic Planning Implementation in Isfahan's Metropolitan Area shows the significance of the structural relationship and the weighted regression coefficients achieved in this process.