Ziba Khoei - Master’s degree in urban Planning from Tarbiyat Modaress University and technical supervisor of local plan in municipality of Tehran, Iran

Land use planning and organized urban activities is the pivot of urban planning. Understanding patterns of urban land and property ownership is important because its affects the nature and shape of urban development especially in the edge of cities with many social and economic features. For implementing urban development plan; must acquire lands that it isn’t an easy work for municipalities. For example the lands located along the southeastern edge of Tehran, called Niro- daryaee , though 80% of them are abandoned and have several social and environmental problems, which was decided to provide urban local plan for it by considering spatial, visual, social, environmental, … features and using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model. But the shape, form and system of land ownership is serious and has a limitation in implementing different type of plans. Thus municipality of Tehran tries changing restrictions to opportunities; it does not interfere in form of lands because it is much cost full so decides to involve landowners to build their land, attracting public participation in successful implementation of the plan. Respecting citizens’ rights, doing in his obligations has achieved satisfaction of residences as the final and real users of the plan.

Land ownership, Municipality of Tehran, Niro- daryaee land, Tehran city, urban development plans