New Town of Pardis and its Role in Decentralization of Tehran Metropolis

A new city is a city which is designed and constructed as a strategy for urban development in order to attract overflow population of metropolitan cities. Tehran، as the  largest  and most  populated  city  in  Iran،  is  the  focus  of population  attraction. Regarding the facts that it has restricted on facilities and urban development and does not have the capability of attracting more population، new cities were created around it، such as Pardis. New city of Pardis was prearranged to be located 35 km northeast of Tehran with about 2600 hectares area in an unfruitful land in which urban life and dwelling dates back to less than 8 years ago. The Studies on finding the appropriate location for this city started in 1986. The prospect of this new city was predicted for 200،000 people but now (2006) only 52،000 people are living there.
In this research، the function of new city of Pardis to attract some population of Tehran has been analyzed. The following hypotheses have been tested in order to see the aims of research:
1- It  seems  that  management  has  been influenced on  achieving  the  aims  of Pardis (attracting some part of  Tehran’ population and deconcentration).
2- It appears that attraction of Tehran’s population to the other new cities has been a factor to do not achieving the aims.
3-Lack of urban structures and employment in this city has played some role not to attract enough population.
Finally it is concluded  that new city of  Pardis has  not  been  successful  in performing  the  role  it  was planned  to (deconcentration), furthermore  it  has added  to  the problems of  Tehran  metropolis. Some  suggestions  have  been offered  to  help  reach  the  first  aims  deconcentration  of   Tehran  metropolis designing new city of Pardis.