URBAN BUILDING GOVERNANCE IN IRANIAN RESEARCHER’S REPRESENTATIONS: THE CASE STUDY OF TEHRAN CITY

Urban growth is an accumulative process, shaping the city spatial structure over decades. Hence, current activities are deposited on the urban fabric through building, and develop the urban form to meet changing needs of its time. Since [good] governance is a central issue to achieve sustainable development on city scale; the research’s problem is "How is Tehran’s Building [good] governance system". In this regard, the Iranian scientific representations are considered as an aspect of truth; and the thematic analysis strategy, as one of the qualitative methods, was used to understand it. Thus, out of 789 articles updated in Iran's most reputable scientific databases, 65 were methodically sampled. The results showed that, the urban building management system of Tehran can be considered "Tehran’s urban Building [good] governance", when it is a “respectable”, “reliable” and “remarkable”. In other words, it is “Respectable” because it has social (Collective agreement) substance and procedure, “Reliable” because it pursues growth in a principal and permanent manner, and “Remarkable” because it solves spatial problems and deals with important challenges of Tehran’s urban Building management.