Abstract
Considering the growth of the world’s population and the need for educated individuals, the development of technology among the young generation, is now felt more than ever. This issue offers countless opportunities for education. So, many urban managers and city authorities try to consider all available options to achieve this goal. Nowadays, educating cities are the framework for development on local, civil and commercial levels all over the world. Tehran as the capital of Iran is a city where people with different cultures and expectations live. This means that the city authorities must perform various programs to satisfy people’s expectations, thus the role of urban management is extremely valuable, and MPOs must make intelligent decisions in this area. The goal of this paper is to examine the current state of Tehran and the projects related to its potential as an educating city in recent years, and also to evaluate the capability of Tehran to advance to the state of the educating city. The key question is: “How does Tehran fulfill the prerequisites of the principles for educating cities?” And “Which criteria need to be reconsidered for this purpose?” The results of the research show that Tehran has a lots of obstacles had yet to be overcome to meet Educating City goals and objectives.
Highlights
An urban innovation engine is a system which can generate, foster and catalyze innovation in the city (Dvir, Pasher 2004)
“People’s awareness of the advantages and opportunities of any town or city, for business, leisure or retail activities, must be developed, especially by the promotion of these benefits and opportunities. Such opportunities take on various forms and it is possible for urban managers to consider what is promoted and to whom it is promoted
Based on studies of the educating cities, citizens spend much of their life in the city and can learn many positive or negative cultural and social principles of society
Summary
An urban innovation engine is a system which can generate, foster and catalyze innovation in the city (Dvir, Pasher 2004). “People’s awareness of the advantages and opportunities of any town or city, for business, leisure or retail activities, must be developed, especially by the promotion of these benefits and opportunities. Other studies show its importance in the socio-cultural as pects of architectural technology (Mahdavinejad et al 2012a) In this way, Tehran as a mega-city in order to have a developed city and knowledgeable and effective citizens, we need to teach them the necessary awareness. Citizenship education in Iran includes administrative, social and cultural levels. One of the challenges facing the educating city theory in Tehran is to develop balance and harmony between the identity and diversity of all those living in this city In this regard, Tehran municipality has launched in recent years cultural centers in the city’s neighborhoods to advance culture in general. This research was carried out on basis of the “content analysis” research method and is based on international experiences studied by descriptive- analytical techniques
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