Structural Requirements to Establish Effective Management in Metropolitan Regions in Iran in Framework of New Regionalism Approach

Institutional organizing of metropolitan regions is one of the controversial topics in political science, regional economics, and regional management that many problems in the management of metropolitan regions depends on it. This study with recognizing new need for global processes as well as isolated thoughts, policy- program segregation, functional segregation and territorial segregation metropolitan regions in Iran, has studied the structure of this system (metropolitan regions). In fact, this article with analytical method analyze management structure of metropolitan regions, and investigate modern and optimal structure for metropolitan regions. The results indicates vacuum of metropolitan regions management and the need for a restructuring at the local and provincial governments for formation of this management level, that this restructuring can be described as government of metropolitan region within a range of regionalism.