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.
Highlights
Cities are changing dynamically and the speed and scale of urbanisation brings tremendous challenges [1]
The subject of urban management, which had been discussed in UN-Habitat declarations, emphasises urban good governance to tackle mentioned challenges; Taylor defines Good governance as an enabling tool that empowers cities to carry out their functions with the maximum effectiveness to improve the quality of life in cities, especially for underprivileged and marginalized groups [2]
By concentrating on the concept of inclusive city and inclusive decision-making as the heart of urban good governance [2], in a city, it begins from the smallest programmable level
Summary
Cities are changing dynamically and the speed and scale of urbanisation brings tremendous challenges [1]. In the process of transition, cities are facing new problems, so urban governance and planning must be flexible and improvable at all scales. Diversity, and instability of drivers of the performance of cities [3], an efficient and effective planning model must utilise the most flexible approach to face the unforeseen crises readily. Such model encompasses economic, social, physical, and cultural infrastructures [4]. Planners and visionaries have developed planned neighbourhoods as remedies for problems that have been caused by unregulated urbanisation [8]
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