Comparison between urban management in Iran and the West

Increasing development of the cities as well as detection of new duties and activities to the urban management (municipalities) requires a comprehensive and expertise looking to this issue. Development of urban management plans is attached to the cities' attempts and exercise as to progress and health of the human resources. These actions include the governmental interference, economic profit, preserving the social equality, reduction of poverty and improvement of environmental conditions. These actions are possible in case of optimized use of the resources. This paper tries to cite such existed necessities of non-concentrated planning and management in the third world countries, beside to examine the features of urban management in Iran as a developing country or third world country and the modern countries; then we could extract differences between the urban management in the developing countries and the modern ones and based on a scientific research, its positive points and adoptable advantages are specified. At this regard, at first, we explain such theoretical principles in the urban field, different methods of urban management in Iran and the modern world and disciplinary or on the other word, considering the country's affairs and finally regarding to the conducted examinations and interpretations, we would reach to a major difference in the urban management at different countries.

Keywords:

urban management , the third world countries , western nations , Iran