Assessment of Ahvaz Urban Management in the Context of Good Governance, An effort to achieve sustainable management

Situation of urban management has many weaknesses that looks urban governance model proposed for the today’s cities. Urban good governance model with regard to civil society, the public sector and the private sector, trying to derive the city and its citizens to excellence situation. The aim of this study is to examine the main elements of urban good governance and according to major component of urban good governance, to examine the principles of good governance in Ahwaz city. This study in terms of purpose is implicational and in terms of method is descriptive-analytic and methods of data collection are survey- library. Statistical population in this study is, three groups of citizens (eight zones of Ahwaz), public sector (water, electricity and gas offices) as well as the private sector (companies and private sector contracting that effect on city). In this study, the possible classified method for sampling and for analysis of the results regression testing (using Enter) in Spss is used. Results of this study showed that, situation of Ahvaz city, is not in the context of urban good governance and components of the rule of law, participation and justice, and from the other components are more important and more effective.