Document Type : Research Paper

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The present paper tries t? respond to two basic questions: what is place of civil participation in the designing of urban planning patterns? Which are the strength ness, weakness, opportunities, threats of citizen's participation to design urban planning? To respond to the first question, civil participation has been studied mentally. This section, studies changes in the people attitude, beliefs and views. To respond to the second question, participation behavior, how to participle and its equipments in the cultural social, managerial, legal and space contexts have be studied. This study has done as qualitative research. Data was collected through open questionnaire together with deep interview and analysis (swot) 'technique. The principle causes of selection of this technique includes of the studying of strength ness, weakness, opportunities, threats of social, cultural, managerial, legal, space of citizen participation to design, to execute, to protect, to maintain from urban plans and planning's sample society was 30 professors and thinkers of urban planning and civil participation from Tehran university and Tehran capital municipality, in 1386 by purposeful and available sampling (expert and authority in the studied area) has been selected and studied. The result showed that to design comprehensive urban planning patterns needs to the active citizens participation. This participation must be done.·as voluntarily and purposeful. Urban planners must emphasize on the mental participation and changes in beliefs and attitudes of citizens. Participative behavior in the urban planning's must be done in two sections. To design and execute urban plans, experts and elite participation must be at first stance. But majority of Tehran capital problems is related to the protection and maintaining of the executed plans. To attract women, youth, retired and to determine their participative equipments in the social, managerial, legal and spatial areas can to reinforce urban management plans effectiveness, and usefulness.

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