Investigating the Factors Affecting Public Participation in Urban Old Texture regeneration (Case study of Mashhad City)

The regeneration process of urban old textures is slow with only 10% progress through the fourth development program. Accordingly, regeneration of the old texture will take many years. Therefore, the current research is mainly aimed at determining the effective factors concerning public participation in old urban texture regeneration. Descriptive and analytic method is applied in this research and 228 residents of urban old texture in Mashhad have been selected as the samples of the study. A researcher-made questionnaire was used for data collection and the collected data were analyzed by SPSS software and using the statistical tests of chi-square, Spearman Correlation, and multiple regression. The results show that the highest effective factors in people’s participation include their trust toward the governors, prediction of the desirable results, their perception toward hygiene and welfare conditions of the desired urban neighborhoods, and possessing other income sources rather than the existing property in the old texture. Therefore, prior to the implementation of regeneration projects, it is necessary to provide confidence and trust in the people and to assure them of the desirable future of executive projects, so that real participation of the residents is possible in all stages of planning and implementation.