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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.

Iran has gone through a very rapid urbanization in the last six decades. The fast pace of urbanization of the country calls for an integrated planning to move  towards sustainable urban development and resilient and livable cities. Despite five decades of history in preparation of urban plans and two decades of history since the introduction of urban management in Iran, the urban policymaking, in practice and theory, remains largely neglected in the urban development system of the country. In the absence of well-defined and integrated urban policies, different actors contribute to the urban develpment based on individual decisions. In this context, the National Urban Policy (NUP) as an initiative by UN-Habitat can play a role in directing Iran’s rapid urbanization towards sustainable development. Taking into consideration the specific needs and circumstannecs of Iran, this paper focuses on the identification and prioritization of the main thematic areas for development of the National Urban Policy (NUP). The research employs a qualitative method with an exploratory approach to identify the main influential thematic areas in developing the NUP, and a quantitative method with Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique to prioritize the identified thematic areas of the NUP. Accordingly, for the qualitative part, the data was collected through studying the urban planning and policy making documents and conducting semi-structured interviews with experts. The results of the research introduce thirteen priority areas for the formulation of the NUP in Iran which are divided into three categories, including issues caused by “the lack of agility of the urban planning system in keeping up with the rapid pace of urbanization in Iran”, “institutional and legal needs and gaps of urban planning system of the country”, and issues related to “the emerging global changes and challenge.”

Many activities of daily living take place in urban public spaces and some of these activities are inevitable. An ideal urban space is one in which civil justice is observed and all citizens and even vulnerable sections of society can use this space. Respect and respect for culture is one of the most important issues for the elderly. The presence of the elderly in management and citizenship participation can also play a very important role. The issue of neighborhood houses, mosques in the administration of neighborhoods, and helping to solve urban problems are also very important issues. The purpose of this study is to investigate the problems and challenges of the elderly in urban areas. The research was applied in terms of purpose and analytical-descriptive in terms of research method. The components are evaluated in six sections. Mean and regression tests were used to assess the challenges of the elderly in urban areas. The statistical population includes the elderly in District 13 of Tehran, 120 people were selected by available non-random sampling method. Findings show that the coefficients of the regression model of respect and culture are rejected at the level of 0.05, but the other variables are not rejected at the level of 0.05. Elderly satisfaction varies according to the degree of respect and culture, so respect and culture at the same time predict the satisfaction of the elderly. But safety, transportation, ease of access, respect and culture, the establishment of smart homes, and the allocation of government funds at the same time are not predictors of elderly satisfaction, so the most important predictor of elderly satisfaction is respect and culture. The results show that there is a significant linear relationship between the criteria of problems and challenges of the elderly in urban space with the satisfaction of the elderly in Tehran. The most important predictors of elderly satisfaction are transportation and government budget allocation, respectively.

Businesses have a tremendous impact on the cultural life of individuals, depending on the type of activity they do, but their responsibility is not commensurate with the extent of the cultural impact they leave. The idea of corporate cultural responsibility provides an answer to this problem, and culture as a way of life is especially highlighted in it. The purpose of this study is to express the necessity, dimensions and pattern of cultural responsibility in urban policy making. The article is based on a reasoning and normative approach and using the method of policy analysis and data collection has been done by documentary study. Corporate cultural responsibility (CCR) in a narrow sense of culture, through supporting the dissemination of cultural services and products, and in a broader sense of culture, through respect and recognition of the way of life of the parties to economic activities, expanding intercultural relations and promoting dialogue International culture is done. At the macro level, international cultural dialogue is also the most important achievement of corporate cultural responsibility.

The Islamic Republic of Iran, due to the diverse potential of the constitution, But it has a small share of good urban governance. In the present study, from the point of view of public policy and with emphasis on the referentials, the adaptation of Fifth and Sixth Development Plans with good urban governance is .addressed. The main question of the research is the referential of urban policy in the fifth and sixth development plan?. The theoretical framework of the research is to use the theory of good urban governance of the habitat. The research method is qualitative content analysis and documentary-library data collection The findings of the research show that the referential of urban policies does not provide a clear definition of the position of urban governance in Iran, The demands and expectations of officials for urban governance are not well-defined, and there is still a centralized, top-down view. As a result of ambiguity in the referential of urban governance, it has affected the process of formulating, implementing and evaluating policies and has failed to fulfill the goals of urban governance development

In the last few decades, Urban policy as a major issue raised in the academic world metropolises and a vast number of studies devoted to the city.
Balance between large and small urban centers, cooperation between central government, local government and the public and private sectors as well as among local strategies for sustainable urban policies are important aspects.
Since Government is focus of public policy, the issue of power in the policies and practices of urban planning is very important.
A plurality of power and the exercise of a federal urban policy to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of such policies will be discussed.The End Introduced An Iranian Pluralistic Metropolis Model and Case Study: Metropolis Kerman Model.

The present paper seeks to investigate the legal and historical framework of the top down movements of deliberative democracy urban public policy in France and Iran, through studying the evolution of the decentralization of power to examine the establishment of a mechanism for ensuring the power-sharing and maximizing the participation in urban management. This paper hypothesizes that the concept of democracy and participation, born in Athens and later in Islam, is separated from the model of democracy that we are experiencing today and the concept of active citizenship requires more attention from public policy decision makers. Local and urban political and social entities must provide the legal and organizational tools to assume the maximum of consultation during all decisional procedures to its implementation.

cConcerning the emer gence of substantial changes in major cities within the past two decades and its relationship to a set of ideas which envisage the emergence of a new urban era, this article will try to examine the different aspects of the new urban policies as a necessary response to a new national and international economy.