Stakeholder Conflicts in Regeneration of Urban Spaces; a Case Study of 30 Tir Street of Tehran, Iran

One of the obstacles facing the regeneration of urban spaces is the failure of regeneration projects to resolve the conflicts of the stakeholders, which leads to delays their exploitation for several years. The purpose of this research was to identify the existing conflicts between the stakeholders of "30-Tir Street" and to analyzing about how these conflicts are understood and valued among the stakeholders.

This survey research was conducted with a qualitative-quantitative approach in 2022 in 5 groups of stakeholders and those related to the space of "30-Tir Street" in Tehran. 20 people from the studied population were selected in the qualitative part by purposive sampling and 190 people were selected in the quantitative part by available sampling. Data analysis was implemented using open and axial coding method and mean comparison test and one-way Anova.

64 conflicts between 5 groups of main stakeholders were identified, 41 of which were conflicts of interests and the rest were behavioral, cognitive and normative conflicts. The pattern of stakeholders' encounter with each other in 30-Tir Street" was a bipolar type in which the mayor and stallholders were on one side and residents, shopkeepers, pedestrians and other stakeholders were on the other side. A significant difference was observed between the perceived conflicts between the stakeholder groups (p=0.001).

"30-Tir Street" project is a kind of gentrification of the public space for the function of urban tourism and is not concerned with preserving the originality and cultural identity of this urban texture. In this program, only the interests of tourists and citizens whose purpose is to have fun and spend their free time have been taken into account and the original identity of Street has been ignored.