Naser Nejati

• PH.D. in urban and regional planning at Shahid Beheshti (National) University, Tehran
• PhD at Shahid Beheshti University

In spite of existing several urban development plans in recent decades in global south and developing countries like Iran by applying usually instrumental rationality, the problem of informal settlements is getting worse and worse. Therefore, rather than analyzing the process and implementation of urban development plans, the hidden aspect of urban...

ABS TRACT: In developing countries, after decades passed from preparing urban development plans, informal settlements and urban decay are unresolved, but their scope and severity increase day by day. Therefore, ins tead of tracing the root of this problem in preparing and implementing plans, it should be viewed from another perspective and the hidd...

ABS TRACT: In developing countries, after decades passed from preparing urban development plans, informal settlements and urban decay are unresolved, but their scope and severity increase day by day. Therefore, instead of tracing the root of this problem in preparing and implementing plans, it should be viewed from another perspective and the hidde...

The role of Power-Knowledge in Regeneration in Iran

Background: In spite of existing several urban development plans in developing countries and the major use of instrumental rationality in the preparation of these plans, it can be seen that the problems of these cities, including informal settlements, dilapidated fabric and urban economy, have not been solved and got worse and worse. Therefore, ins...

This document is the result of 4 sessions with 8 speakers who are specialized on informal settlements issues. The center of excellence in Kurdistan University supports these events.

The roots of many problems that cities nowadays face are the outside of their realm. In fact, different studies on cities and their suburbs in the entire world indicates that cooperation between central city and their suburbs are absolutely necessary to address these regional problems such as urban sprawl, unemployment, devastation of agriculture a...

Abstract: Problems faced with the metropolitan in recent decades and the inability of municipal managers to solve these problems, draw the attention of theorists to a scale beyond the metropolis, i.e. was attracted to the region level. A new spatial global phenomena in the region, is a structure is interpreted as "city-region". The clear and exact...

Abstract Although cities were the homes of only 10 percent of the world's population in the last century, in 2005 more than half of the world's population lived in the cities and metropolitan cities. So, following increasing urbanization and the formation of distinct social classes, geographic spaces have divided to some classes. Hence the uneven s...

Mismatch of territories under authority of local governments with urban-regional activity domains, on one hand, has caused numerous problems and, on the other hand, has hindered taking maximum advantage of regional capacities and partial and competitive advantages. Hence, application of a new regionalism approach, which focuses on shared planning a...

Extended Abstract Introduction The spatial development management in Iran is not well integrated and thus, manifested in the chaotic and somehow win-lose competitions within the regions. This result in inefficient use of resources and regional disparities. Overcoming this hurdle needs new solutions which are encountering with challenges relating to...

Mismatch of territories under authority of local governments with urban-regional activity domains, on one hand, has caused numerous problems and, on the other hand, has hindered taking maximum advantage of regional capacities and partial and competitive advantages. Hence, application of a new regionalism approach, which focuses on shared planning a...