Military Engineering in Iran-Iraq war, Lesson Learned A Normative-Scientific Management Pattern for Renovation of Deteriorated Urban Areas

Iran's history boasts valuable experiences that are evident in various fields of economic, social, war and defense, management, architecture, urbanism, and so on. Transferring this experience to the next generations and applying them is an important step towards improving the country. The Iran–Iraq War (the Holy Defense), as a successful experience in management and also a national movement is a valuable event which plays more important role than others. The experiences of military engineering during this time period could significantly affect any practical and management field, especially on the city management and renovation of urban deteriorated area. In this article, according to field studies and researches which are conducted by the author, it is provided to document the events and complete the studies in renovation of urban deteriorated area. The main purpose is to enrich the capacity of renovation planning, by employee the experiences of military engineering in the duration of the holy defense. The lessons learned from warfare engineering can be summarized in adopting the Normative-scientific approach to manage the renovation of urban deteriorated areas. This new approach has emphasized on some principles that adopted according to Iranian-Islamic culture based on a special value, scientific and experimental oriented managerial approach. Leading and creative thinking, interactive participation, reliability in the way to action, learning while doing, and redefining the foundations and transformation of practices are the main elements of this approach.