Civil Engineering and Architecture Vol. 9(7), pp. 2492 - 2504
DOI: 10.13189/cea.2021.090733
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Toward a Paradigm Shift in Urban Planning in Tehran: Neighborhood Development Plans

Kaveh Hajialiakbari ^1,*, Mitra Karimi ², Safiye Tayebi ^3
1 Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
² Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
³ Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

ABSTRACT

Establishment of facilitation offices in deteriorated neighborhoods of Tehran for more than a decade has led to a significant transition from top-down and authoritative intervention into a bottom-up and participatory-based renewal; one of the important parts of this transition is the adoption of a distinct approach to provide neighborhood development plans (NDPs). This approach is based on the identification of the main problems of neighborhoods, attention to all dimensions, adaptation with parallel and upstream plans, and activation of the participation of local communities and collaboration of stakeholders in public, private, and third sectors. In this paper, the neighborhood development planning approach to the problem of deterioration and obsolescence in Tehran is defined; the most important parts are the content, features, process of provision, executive framework, and assessment phases of the plan. Despite the necessity of urban renewal-regeneration integrated and systematic planning, the challenge of ignoring the unique characteristics of neighborhoods will be addressed by NDPs Scaling and Framing. Actually by defining a new level in medium and short-term plans, Tehran Municipality changed the approach of urban planning. Developing a dynamic, flexible, partnership-driven and scalable framework for dealing with the urban decay to correctly identify the neighborhoods key issues and the point solutions has been the new approach's main objective.

KEYWORDS
Neighborhood Development, Deteriorated Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Development Offices, Participation, Community

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[1] Kaveh Hajialiakbari , Mitra Karimi , Safiye Tayebi , "Toward a Paradigm Shift in Urban Planning in Tehran: Neighborhood Development Plans," Civil Engineering and Architecture, Vol. 9, No. 7, pp. 2492 - 2504, 2021. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2021.090733.

(b). APA Format:
Kaveh Hajialiakbari , Mitra Karimi , Safiye Tayebi (2021). Toward a Paradigm Shift in Urban Planning in Tehran: Neighborhood Development Plans. Civil Engineering and Architecture, 9(7), 2492 - 2504. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2021.090733.