Development, Sift, and Prioritization of Urban Catalyst Projects Planning Indicators; Case Study: Analysis of Indicators in Tehran Metropolis

Each city has a unique feature that can be used as a stimulus for the development of macro and participatory urban planning. This feature can be applied as a tool for the rational and normative management of cities by governments and urban managers. In this approach, this feature can be a project that serves as a catalyst to address poverty, crime, job creation and urban dynamism, as well as to re-examine neighborhood life and civil rights with respect to ethnic differences and cultural conflicts that require political, managerial and leadership, economic, legal, social and environmental reformations. The present study aims to extract, sift, and prioritize the indispensable indicators for urban catalyst projects planning. Applying these types of projects requires careful and in-depth examination at three levels: macro, meso, and micro. Since these projects pave the way for the growth, development and globalization of cities and implemented in inefficient urban fabric with high capacity, and on the other hand, any national development largely depends on the development of urban areas, especially metropolitan areas, in this research, after the development and sift of indicators and prioritization of them using Fuzzy Delphi model, the status que of Tehran metropolis was studied and prioritized with three characteristics: 1- enjoyment at desirable level, 2- enjoyment at poor level, and 3- Lack, in order to be used as headlines to implement these projects at micro level to revitalize, re-develop or regenerate worn-out textures, brownfields, industrial abandoned lands, and inefficient urban spaces in Tehran metropolitan area that require new plan. At the end, practical suggestions are made for the implementation of the components of urban catalyst projects planning at the two meso- and macro- levels focusing on Tehran