Function of municipalities in the framework of urban good governance:(case study: the municipality of Malayer)

Favorable urban government takes a deconstructive approach towards urban development planning and adopts the communicative urbanization model through the cooperation and interaction among the major actors in urban management; that is, the civil society, the government and the private sector. It seems, therefore, that the institution of the urban management which comprises of the municipality and the city council in Iran can be one of the best mechanisms for the favorable urban government to be possible. The present study aims to define and to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the favorable urban government. It will also present a series of indices for the development of favorable urban government in Iran and will study these indices in terms of urban management in Malayer, Iran. The approach adopted in the present study is descriptive-analytic. The data has been analyzed using IBMSPSS and Excel and the variables have been evaluated using the Likert scale. Results signify low levels of all the favorable urban government indices except for the cooperation index in Malayer.