Evaluation of factors influencing on the political-administrative management of space in Kashan city

Karami, Afshin; Khatam, Saeed

Evaluation of factors influencing on the political-administrative management of space in Kashan city

Document Type : Origional Article

Authors

Afshin karami ¹ ^¶

Saeed Khatam ²

¹ Assistant Professor of Political Geography, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.

² Post-doctorate in Political Geography, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Background and Objective: Today, we see that in developed countries and most of the developing countries of the world, urban and metropolitan areas, like other residential centers, have formal and defined geographic and management systems. These types of management institutions are responsible for formulating the integrated development policy of urban and metropolitan areas and creating coordination between the programs, policies and actions of management institutions that are influential in urban development. Therefore, the management of cities has special sensitivity and complexities. These types of complications exist in most management systems. In fact, it can be said that urban management is an effort to manage the complex and systemic phenomenon of the city.
Methodology: Based on this, the present research has been conducted with the aim of investigating the influencing factors on the political-administrative management of space in Kashan city and by using of the Fuzzy Dematel method. To achieve this purpose, four political-security, geographic-communication, social-cultural and legal factors and 23 indicators influencing the political management of space in Kashan city were extracted.
Findings and Results: The findings of the research show that the legal factor that has the highest amount of D+R has the most interaction with other dimensions, and the socio-cultural factor that has the highest amount of D-R has the greatest impact (influence) on other dimensions. Also, in the field of interaction and relationship between the government and urban management in Kashan city, the index of existing laws and the index of spirit of cooperation-atmosphere, which respectively have the highest amount of D+R and D-R, have the greatest influence on other indicators.

Keywords

Urban Management

Space

City

Politics Kashan

Subjects

Town and country planning (Spatial Organization)

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