Explain Participatory Planning with a Sustainable Development Approach, Case Study: Shahinshahr City

Solving the problems and problems of Shahinshahr in the economic,social and environmental fields will be possible only in the shadow of the conscious participation of the citizens in managing the affairs of the cities.The purpose of this study is to explain participatory planning with a sustainable development approach in Shahinshahr.This research is descriptive-analytical in terms of purpose,applied and developmental method and method.The statistical population of the study in this study includes all citizens of Shahinshahr with a population of173329people and the sample size was selected based on Cochran's formula to383 people.The research tool includes a questionnaire of44questions in eight variables(leisure, social trust,urban payments,urban elections,tendency to participate in urban affairs,tendency to participate in neighborhood affairs,individual perspective and feeling of powerlessness).The formal and structural method has been approved and its reliability has been confirmed based on Cronbach's alpha at the rate of0.86.The collected data were analyzed based onSPSSsoftware and t-test,Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Friedman tests and structural equation path analysis and confirmatory factor analysis inAMOSsoftware.Accordingly,the main question of the present study is what is participatory planning with a sustainable development approach in Shahinshahr?The results showed that the leisure index on participatory planning with sustainable development approach,social trust on participatory planning with sustainable development approach,payments on participatory planning with sustainable development approach,elections on participatory planning with sustainable development approach,neighborhood affairs Participatory planning with sustainable development approach,urban affairs have influenced participatory planning with sustainable development approach,individual perspective on participatory planning with sustainable development approach and feeling of powerlessness have affected participatory planning with sustainable development approach