Urban Governance: Identifying measures for Urban Management of Tehran Municipality

The purpose of this research is to identify international indicators for studying urban development in Tehran with using urban governance model.

the method used in this research is combined research that for making components and indicators at first, data was collected by using field method (interviews with exploratory study) and identified by qualitative method of theme analysis of components and indicators. Also, to assess the validity of achieved model quantitative method (using the scrolling and distribution of the questionnaire for confirmatory factor analysis) was used. In the first stage for theme analysis The statistical population in this research include previous research and all internal and external scientific articles that contained the key word for urban governance indicators. In the meantime, 8 scientific studios internal articles and 15 valid external articles were identified that all of them were studied. In the second part, the statistical society consists of experts from Studying and Planning Center of Tehran city. In the second part also for studying validity of the model The statistical population consists of all zone one municipality managers of Tehran.

The results of the analysis revealed that 62 themes were identified in the interview and then, with the help of confirmatory factor analysis, among them, 50 topics were finally selected and the indices were extracted from them.

Finally, indicators were categorized in the municipality in 8 areas of citizen participation with municipality, efficiency and effectiveness, citizens' accountability, transparency, legality, consensus orientation, justice, and strategic vision within municipality. The conclusions obtained from measurement model in the state of standard estimate and also T-value demonstrate appropriate validity of indicators.