Urban Management based on Citizen Participation to Enhance Quality of Life in Tehran

摘要

In recent years the development of management approaches based on citizen participation has been growing. Concept of citizenship is the most important criterion for the legitimacy of the democratic systems. Social science theorists have considered citizen participation the main representative of citizenship. Thus, enabling citizens to participate in urban management result in increasing of their satisfaction. On the one hand this will cause citizens take place in a position to have the ability to change the conditions based on their increased satisfaction and on the other hand city managers use citizens opinions in their decisions and reflect it in their own actions. In modern urban management system based on participation, citizen not only judge the result of city managers and administers, but also involve in the processes of decision making and can be influential on the issues. This article tries to explain the neighborhoods council associations which citizens can participate in urban management resulting in improvement of their quality of life. In this regard Evin and Darakeh neighborhoods of Tehran were selected for case study and needed information were obtained from statistics and information of organizations affiliated to Tehran Municipality and also people's opinions.