Investigating the interactive role of university and municipality in creating and developing a learning city from the perspective of educational planning

This study aimed at designing a model for developing a learning city with focus on university in metropolis city of Ahvaz from the perspective of educational planning. The research is based on the Grounded theory. The statistical population included faculty members of Shahid Chamran University and Ahwaz municipality managers and sampling was purposeful and snow ballets till the researcher after interviewing 23 samples reached a saturated decision. With analyzing the data of the interviews, 834 open codes extracted that from combination of them, 38 categories developed and after 3 steps of open coding, axial coding and selective coding, learning city model with focus on university with six main categories (condition of creation, phenomenon aligned, background conditions, modeling condition, strategies and consequences) presented. The designed model could be used as a strategic or operational model in municipality of Ahvaz city. Based on the data of this research, consequences of collaboration of municipality and university could be define as follows: social growth and maturating of the citizens, developing of social urban activities, increasing of cultural and scientific associations, improving urban decisions,upgrading of university and municipality cooperation, Appropriateness of the distribution of educational services with the distribution of the urban population, innovation in urban views and perspective and making necessary to providing tutorials for any projects in the learning city and improving the municipality collaboration in national and international levels.