Urban management based on neighborhood participatory planning approach (Case Study: Neighborhood Urban areas of Tehran 1st District)

Since the middle of 1980s to today more attention of urban management has been attracted to local capacity, organizational and institutional development and consequently movement from centralized management to local management. So, it is necessary to "Using neighborhood capacity" and "Redefining the role of citizens and actors of urban management" in urban areas and also understanding of "Participatory Planning" and its functions at local levels, and is helped to formation and implementation of new pattern of urban management at districts level as management based on neighborhood. This paper aims to answer this question that how could obtain to optimal and stable management of urban districts by participatory planning approach? To answer this question, librarian (documental) and field (survey) data collecting methods was used, that in librarian method using plug research and in field method using questionnaire tool as Likert Spectrum, required information was collected. Statistical society of this study based on Cochran Formula was in Zafaraniyeh, Velenjak, Dezashib, Golaabdare and Emamzadeh Ghasem that was choosed random. Field data was collected after simplify and classification and coding, introduced to SPSS and then using descriptive statistics (average, variance, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient, T test one sample) analyses data and answered to research question. Results from field observation and statistical tests shows that there is relation between people participatory and urban management based on neighborhood and by interfering of people in make decisions, feasible and stable management of urban area will obtain.