عبدالجلیل شریفی

This study aims to evaluate urban development from the perspective of public policy-making with emphasis on the role of the Islamic Council of Shiraz city)emphasis on the fifth counci (.The present research is applied in terms of nature and purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of method. The data collection method of the present study is a mixture of library and field methods. The statistical population of the study consists of managers and supervisors of different departments of Shiraz Municipality (executive experts) and university professors familiar with the subject of the research (university experts) from which random sampling was done. Also, Morgan table was used to determine the sample size. The data collection tool is a researcher-made questionnaire whose questions are based on the review of domestic and foreign research, which consists of 3 sections: The study of demographic variables, the evaluation of the policy of the Islamic Council of the city (including 23 questions in 5 dimensions) and the third part of the urban development evaluation questionnaire (including 33 questions in 5 dimensions) which is used to collect data after confirming the validity and reliability. After completing the questionnaires, the information contained in it was coded and analyzed using SPSS and SmartPLS statistical software at a significance level of 5%. The results of research model analysis showed that at 95% confidence level, the main hypothesis of the research, namely urban policy-making with emphasis on the role of the Islamic Council of Shiraz city has led to urban development of Shiraz and the five sub-hypotheses related to this hypothesis were confirmed. Also, the findings at the mentioned level of confidence showed that the overall effect of urban policy variable with emphasis on the role of the Islamic Council of the city on urban development is 0.899, which shows the very good effect of this model in explaining the variance of urban development evaluation variable.

Councils, as institutions that derive their legitimacy and popularity from the people, can play an important role in urban policy-making through their decisions regarding urban form, especially in the fields of urban planning and architecture. The present study aimed to evaluate the urban policies of the Islamic City Council of Shiraz in the field of urban planning and architecture from the perspective of sustainable development. The research method was descriptive-survey, using a questionnaire tool. The statistical population of this study consisted of managers and heads of various departments of Shiraz municipality (executive experts) and university professors familiar with the research topic (academic experts). The sample size was calculated to be 113 individuals using Morgan's table. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were confirmed. The study's findings indicated that for evaluating the urban policies of the Islamic Council, the Hagoort and Gunn model (1984) consisting of 5 dimensions of issue identification, policy formulation, decision-making, policy implementation, and policy evaluation can be used. To measure these dimensions, 19 components related to urban policy-making were identified based on the opinions of academic and executive experts in the field of urban planning. The results showed that at a significance level of less than 0.05, the dimensions and components related to urban policy-making were significant. The results also indicated that the status of the dimensions and components of the Islamic Council's urban policies was evaluated as average. The Friedman test results for ranking the dimensions and components of policy-making showed that among the dimensions, issue identification and among the components, the delegation of power and resources to the members of the Islamic Council obtained the highest rank. The results of the one-sample t-test also indicated that the performance of the Islamic Council in terms of urban planning and architecture policies was less than 0.05. In the field of urban planning, the best performance of the Islamic Council pertained to the consultation and legal supervision of the urban planning department and its affiliated units with a score of 0.803, and in the field of architecture, the best performance pertained to consultation and approval of regulations and decisions in the field of architecture with a score of 0.705.