Counter urbanization and Prospect of Decentralization in City of Tehran

Counter urbanization is the movement of population from urban areas to rural areas that generally is associated with migration from cities to villages. There is many evidences about counter urbanization in developed courtiers in past decades, but this phenomenon is relatively new in developing countries and there is in limited spaces including the metropolis environs. There are evidences about the temporary and permanent counter urbanization and reverse migration of people from metropolises to urban and rural areas in Iran especially in city of Tehran. The Objectives of the present research is study and analysis of counter urbanization and its changes in city of Tehran and factors affecting it. The required data by documental methods and mainly by secondary analysis of population senses is gathered and then processed and analyzed. The results indicates the net- migration in city of Tehran at least two recent decades was negative and in fact some of Tehran’s residents have immigrated to surrounding rural and urban areas in certain periods. However although the net- migration has been negative in city of Tehran in past two decades, but these population flows didn’t have important role in decentralization from city of Tehran, because of Tehran's most important migration destination are other townships in Tehran province especially cities and villages around the city of Tehran and this settlement doesn’t have far with Tehran. Therefore is necessary implementing development plans and regional balance in the country and rural and urban integrated management in Tehran Metropolitan Area? Also decentralization should be total Tehran province or at least cover the Tehran Metropolitan Area and doesn’t have limited only to city of Tehran (22 urban districts).