Analysis of spatial-activity structure problems and decision-making structure of district 5 of Isfahan city

Cities and urban areas have various urban planning problems, and if they are left unattended, not only new problems will emerge, but existing problems will also become more intense. Some planning theorists have emphasized on the need to focus directly on planning problems and presented various methods for finding and analyzing problems since the late 1970s. The problem can be thought as a theoretical or practical difficulty that shifts the researcher's attitude towards a subject and leads him to enrich his knowledge. To define the problem, it is required to describe the system including agents, relationships, people and environment, including the market, competition, methods and programs, and briefly, goals, opportunities and challenges define the problem. A problem is regarded as an opportunity for a decision or a barrier that makes it difficult to achieve a given or intended goal; therefore, in the definition of a problem, we refer to a problematic situation that has not yet been resolved and needs to be solved. Thus, when an obvious difference between the existing situation and the desired situation is recognized, the problem has been detected. Problem solving, merely, is not a single process and can be divided into four separate but related parts: identify or detect problem, problem definition, problem statement, and problem analysis. The purpose of the present research is to identify the structural-spatial-activity problems and the decision-making structure of the district 5 of Isfahan based on upstream texts and documents, the opinions of the residents of the region, and to trace the problems based on the opinions of the decision-making structure of the region. The research methodology is descriptive-analytical, and the problems are analyzed using creative problem-solving techniques (boundary test and fish bone method). According to the results of the study, the most important problems in this area are the decrease of residential values in some areas of the region, the inefficiency of roads and public transportation system, the low participation in the revitalization of worn-out areas, and the inefficiency of the urban management system.