The priorities of urban problems and pathos in Iran (A case study of Gorgan city)

Sometimes, the city has not a good function. Some problems appear along by urban development. These problems consisted of economic, cultural, political, social and anatomical inadequacy. The urban issues and damages are created due to lack of balance between urban facilities and urban population and they are intensified due to their weak relation with development and lack of modern urban management. The main goal of this research is detection of urban problems and pathos in Iran and determination of its priority concerning importance and sensitiveness which is performed in the city of Gorgan as case study. The research is descriptive type and is performed by survey study. The statistical population of the research includes three groups of institutions managers, elites and citizens. The population of research sample was 381 persons who were gained by the methods non-probably sampling (purposed) and non-probably (Quota) for elites and citizens. The results of this research indicates that; poverty, unemployment, false occupations, immigration, beggarliness and housing are among the most important urban economic damages; and addiction, marginal settlements, divorce, street children, robbery, street harassment, vandalism, murder, citizenship rights violation, violence and public security are among important urban social damages; and fashion pursuing, bad dressing, tribalism, cultural conflicts and educational abnormality were among important cultural damages; and at last, traffic, pollution and convenient situation of pathways and asphalts were among most important physical issues and problems of the city. Also issues like unemployment, addiction, fashion pursuing and inconvenient situation of asphalts and urban pathways are the first priority of economic, social, cultural and physical problems of the city.