Strategic Spatial Planning of Small and Medium Size towns using Meta-SWOT Model (Case Study: Taft city in Yazd Province)

Attempting to stabilizing small and medium size cities need to appropriate strategic planning. A range of local challenges hampers the efforts to achieve such stabilization processes in medium and small sized towns. These challenges are widely known. They have been explored in many case studies. Though the challenges differ from town to town, a few generalizations can be made, independent of shortcomings related to geographic location, environmental circumstances and local economic history, or present and past politico-administrative conditions. Strategic planning as a useful tool for management used for helping to an organization to better doing of works and ensure that our organization is acting along with our purposes. In this regard, one of the most common models of strategic planning in urban development is SWOT model. But nowadays, experts after many years using of this model, concluded that SWOT is based on intellectual inspiration and it was non-systematic, in the other hand it avoided quantification and do not have predictive power.