An Analysis on the Position of Urban Good Governance and Strategic Planning Case study: Zahedan City

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The experience of centralized countries showed that one-side and subject view  looking  at the city will cause great problems. Removing such problems is possible through public supervision (responsiveness), collaborative action and promoting the efficiency level of urban functions.  Good urban governing is suggested as the new approach of decision-making system and managing urban affairs and in fact is a process that is formed on one hand, according to interaction between organizations and official foundations of managing city and on the other hand private organizations and organizations of civil society.
The purpose of the recent research is to measure the situation of indices of good urban governing and showing  the role of facilitator of citizens in access to this  great goal. The methodology is descriptive-analytical one and by using SWOT and  questionnaire, the position of the strategic program of good urban governing is analyzed. To this end, based on Cochran formula, 385 questionnaire of citizens and 32 questionnaire of the professionals and experts of municipality and city council were completed. The result showed that according to citizens, the best situation among indices of good governing belongs to the  indices of strategic insight and partnership  and according to experts, the best status belongs to receptiveness and answerability indices.The results obtained from SWOT analysis showed that governing  status in Zahedan city is on defensive status among four statuses of  invasive, conservative, competitive and defensive, procedures are as the following : Attraction of participation  and attention to the  people's view in preparing the plans and information about the details of plans, concentration on strategic thought and gathering local managers on implementation of urban integrated management and the necessity of coordination  between organizations, special attention to environmental issues in the planning, attention to justice issues, equal access of the districts to the facilities and decreasing the created gap between the districts in this regard.
 

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