Journal of Sustainable Urban & Regional Development Studies (JSURDS)

Abstract Background and Aim: One of the concerns of urban management is the challenges caused by urban damage and its diversity and increase and its impact on social disorder and disrupting the social health of the city and citizens. Undoubtedly, according to their inherent functions, local associations can play a significant role in reducing and preventing social harm. Management is the main and life-giving factor of any organization and institution. Urban management in cities is responsible for issues related to urban life. Urban management is a process of related responsibilities and actions including policy making, planning, organizing, implementing, monitoring and controlling, which is set to achieve specific operational goals at the level of urban communities.
Methods:  This research is applied-theoretical in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of method. The required information and data have been collected through library and field methods. SPSS software is used in this research.
Findings and Conclusion: This paper employs social damage in Ahvaz has become a worrying situation especially during the last decade. The negative function of these damages in destroying the image of the city has forced the city administration of Ahvaz to seriously intervene in the management of these damages. However, due to various plans and significant budget savings by Ahvaz municipality, the process of reducing and at least curbing social harm in this city cannot be acknowledged. The aim of the current research is to investigate the role of urban management in reducing social damage in Ahvaz city.

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Understanding today's urban man and the needs of citizens is a prerequisite for today's urban management. The purpose of this research is to investigate and evaluate the level of satisfaction and prioritization of the needs of Chabahar city citizens from urban management and Chabahar Municipality. The method used in this research is the Kano model. In this research, based on the Kano model, three needs of Chabahar citizens from Chabahar Municipality services were examined. 1- Mandatory needs (needs that do not lead to satisfaction if they are met, but not meeting them leads to customer dissatisfaction). 2- One-dimensional needs (needs that the more they are met, the greater the customer satisfaction and vice versa). 3- Attractive needs (needs that the more they are met, the more customer satisfaction increases and vice versa). 30 university professors, executive officials, and experts from Chabahar Municipality were selected and answered the questions of the questionnaire designed based on the Kano model in two favorable and unfavorable ways. Of the 25 services defined for Chabahar Municipality, 15 activities were identified as mandatory needs, 6 as one-dimensional needs, 2 as attractive needs, and 2 as indifference to Chabahar citizens. Based on the classification, grading, and importance of needs obtained in this study, Chabahar Municipality should plan and take action to provide urban services in order to increase citizen satisfaction.

Abstract Background and Objective: Rapid urbanization and environmental pressures challenge cities to provide a high quality of life. Livability, encompassing social, economic, physical, and environmental dimensions, is influenced by effective urban management. This study aims to evaluate the impact of managerial strategies on urban livability in Districts 1 and 10 of Tabriz, identifying strengths and weaknesses to inform sustainable planning and policy decisions.
Methodology: Descriptive-analytical approach with questionnaires. Data were analyzed using SPSS with t-tests and regression analysis to compare districts and assess relationships between management strategies and livability indicators.
Results and Findings: Findings indicate significant differences between the two districts. District 1 demonstrated higher levels of livability across most indicators, especially in infrastructure and services, while District 10 showed weaknesses in socio-cultural and environmental dimensions. Regression results confirm a meaningful relationship between the quality of urban management and perceived livability. These findings are consistent with international research emphasizing the role of governance, participation, and equitable distribution of resources in enhancing urban life.

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.

Abstract Background and Objective: Effective urban waste management is a critical challenge in Ahvaz, Iran. The city faces growing environmental, health, and social issues due to increasing population, escalating waste generation, and insufficient infrastructure and planning. In this context, urban governance, defined as the set of mechanisms, institutions, and decision-making and implementation processes, plays a particularly crucial role.
Methodology: This applied research aims to investigate the relationship between various urban governance indicators and urban waste management in Ahvaz. Its nature and method are analytical-exploratory. From a statistical population of 1,302,591 Ahvaz citizens, a sample of 386 individuals was selected using Cochran's formula. Data collection was carried out using a researcher-developed questionnaire, which demonstrated confirmed content (face) and construct validity, along with acceptable composite reliability. The data was analyzed using correlation analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM), employing SPSS and Smart PLS software.
Results and Findings: The results from the structural equation modeling reveal a strong and significant relationship (p<0.05) between urban governance indicators and urban waste management. This clearly demonstrates that improving urban governance in Ahvaz will directly lead to a more robust and efficient urban waste management system. Furthermore, the model fit indices indicate a strong alignment between the data and the conceptual model, reinforcing the validity and reliability of the modeling results. This confirms that the proposed model effectively explains the relationship between the variables under study.
A comparison of correlation coefficients shows that waste generation has a particularly strong and close link with waste segregation and recycling. In contrast, waste collection exhibits a weaker correlation compared to other dimensions of urban waste management. Additionally, the PLS test results ranked the urban waste management indicators as follows: waste segregation and recycling (201.658 points), waste generation (148.120 points), waste treatment and disposal (66.819 points), and waste collection (21.398 points). These findings underscore the pivotal role of urban governance, especially in strengthening the infrastructure and processes for waste segregation and recycling. This highlights the necessity of investing and giving special attention to improving urban governance indicators as a fundamental prerequisite for achieving an efficient and sustainable urban waste management system.

Abstract Background and Aim: As a source of development, cities have faced an unfavorable cycle of inequalities due to inefficient structures and injustice has been formed in the distribution of services in cities, therefore, spatial justice in the distribution of services for fair allocation is one of the goals of planners. This research, which  have done with the aims to evaluate the spatial distribution of service devices  Gorgan city ;
Methods:  It is of applied type and descriptive-analytical in terms of nature and method.  The collection of information is based on library sources, documents and field studies.  SPSS software was used in the analysis of different parts of the research.  The reliability of the questionnaire is based on Cronbach's alpha of 0.834 and the statistical sample size is 384 citizens.  The scope of the study is Gorgan city with an area of   3560 hectares, which has a population of 353,000 people in the 2015 census. 
Findings and Conclusion:  The findings show that the indicators of meeting the needs of citizens, the unfavorable cycle of services and class distance respectively have the highest average level in the distribution of service places and there is a significant relationship between the distribution of service places and satisfaction in the study area.  In the analysis of the role of urban management in improving the condition of service facilities, among the selected indicators, the inefficiency of urban management was ranked first, informed management was ranked second, and optimal service delivery was ranked third, and the index of continuous monitoring was ranked last.  For the indicators of effective urban management in the distribution of service places in Gorgan city, they were selected based on Friedman's test, and at the end, suggestions were made to improve the service status of service devices.

Abstract Background and Aim: People always seek to provide security as one of their basic needs, also it has been considered as one of the important indicators of the quality of urban life from urban planners and managers point of view. Precisely, feeling of social security in urban spaces is one of the most important indicators of quality of life for citizens. With the increasing necessity of creating security in societies, the tools, methods and approaches to create and maintain it have undergone transformation. Therefore, urban management is one of the important aspects of urban planning, which is directly related to human societies, especially urban society, and creating social security; therefore, the aim of this research is to review the role and position of urban management in improving the social security of cities.
Methods:Methodology of this paper is library-analytical. First, definitions and theories have been collected through library studies. Second, for the data analysis, the review of the theoretical foundations and the research conducted in this field, the components of social security and the impact of the performance and role of urban management on each of them have been discussed.
Findings and Conclusion: Studies show that based on the coefficient of determination, 28% of the variance of the dependent variable is explained by the independent variable. Beta coefficient (BTA) also indicates a direct relationship between two independent and dependent variables. As a result, through the regression analysis of two variables, it can be concluded that the level of social security and crime prevention increases with the improvement of urban management performance.
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Abstract Background and Aim: One of the most important behavioral issues in the field of management is urban management, which determines many variables of the organization. And following that, in recent decades, the issue of knowledge management has been raised as a strategic need for institutions, organizations and service institutions. Which guarantees long-term advantages for organizations, especially in the field of urban and community management and their utilization of human, intellectual and informational capitals of the municipality. In this regard; The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect of knowledge management indicators on the performance of urban management using the interpretive structural model of ISM in the Municipality of Kermanshah.
Methods: The method is practical in terms of targeting, and descriptive-analytical in terms of identifying the trends and relationships. In the process of preparing and producing data, firstly, the effective factors on the impact of knowledge management on the urban management of municipality of Kermanshah were identified using the ideas of 20 experts and professors in related organizations through the Delphi method. In order to analyze the data, 10 factors which have strong influence on factors of knowledge management in performance of urban management, in municipalities of regions of Kermanshah, ISM interpretive-structural modeling is used, then with Mic-Mac software applied.
Findings and Conclusion: The results of the research showed that technology standard, organizational culture, human resources infrastructure, are among the most influential factors, and five leadership criteria are process mechanism, citizen participation, strengthening non-governmental organizations, and smart city are among the most influential factors. There is a two-way relationship between the variables of knowledge management and urban management, and they influence each other a lot. Also, the results obtained from Mick-Mack show that most of the factors are linked variables and have high dependence and high guiding power. At the end, a proposal has been made to strengthen knowledge management on the urban management of municipality of Kermanshah.

Abstract Zahedan City has had one of the most irregular trends in urban physical expansion over the past three decades. Absolute poverty and unemployment have increased the informal settlements and spatial-physical anomalies in this city. The present study was an attempt to conduct a sociological analysis of the impact of marginalization on urban management of Zahedan City in Karimabad region.The research method is the survey method and the data gathering tool is a questionnaire. The random sampling technique was used and the sample size was determined using the Cochran formula. Therefore, 375 questionnaires were distributed among residents aged between 18 and 70 years in the region. Data analysis was performed in SPSS and LISREL statistical software. The research findings indicate that most individuals had a high school diploma or lower education, an income of below 10 million Rails and had freelance and labor jobs, all of which sets the scene for social harms in the region. Thereafter, data normality was examined using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. According to the results of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, the significance values for the economic, physical, service-environmental, and urban management variables were 0.090, 0.108, 0.070 and 0.051, respectively. Concerning the economic condition, physical condition, service-environmental and urban management condition, the results showed that the conditions are average and blow average in all dimensions, while urban management with 3.637 and with the highest average, it had the worst condition compared to other dimensions.Besides, the results indicated that the economic, physical, service-environmental and demographic components affect the urban management of Zahedan City. Regarding the improvement mechanism, in addition to the concern for economic needs, concepts related to urban control management, cultural activities and increasing of the awareness of marginalized people are taken into account.

Abstract Today, one of the important approaches to control and manage this phenomenon is the approach of good urban governance. Good urban governance can be defined as the way and process of managing urban affairs or the constructive participation of the public governmental private and civil society sectors in order to achieve sustainable urban development, create a healthy city and improve the quality of life. In the present study, the informal settlement areas of Ilam city have been studied with the approach of good urban governance. The research method is descriptive-analytical. For statistical calculations and analysis of research data, statistical software SPSS, Excel and statistical techniques including t-test, F-test and ANOVA method were used. Research information has been collected in two ways: library and survey (using a questionnaire). The statistical population of the study includes six thousand households living in the informal settlement of Ilam and the sample size is 397 heads of households who were selected using Cochran's formula and simple random sampling. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used for the reliability of the questionnaire, which was calculated to be 0.86. the evaluation of variable have been done through Likert scale.The results of studies based on the indicators of good urban governance, participation, accountability, legality, justice, transparency, responsibility, effectiveness and efficiency show that the rate of benefiting from good urban governance in Ilam is at a low level. Accordingly, the more good urban governance and its indicators implemented and administrated, the more the expansion of informal settlement controlled.

Abstract Growth and development in cities, in addition to financial resources and economic and social growth, requires efficient urban management. Today, urban management has many challenges. In this study, the challenges facing urban management have been researched and the most important goal is to measure and rank the challenges of urban management in Kermanshah. The present study has been done with a descriptive-analytical approach in terms of applied purpose and the method of data collection is based on the library method and field survey (questionnaire) of the findings based on surveys and interviews with 15 experts. In urban affairs, the city of Kermanshah, which was estimated using a simple random sampling method. In this study, low level components of life and social development, political and structural conflicts of centralized government system and decentralized urban management, nature conflict of local urban management with macro-administrative system, uncertainty of organization and inter-organizational relations of urban management, uncertainty of organization and the internal relations of urban management, inefficiency of urban management laws, shortage and vacuum of specialized human resources have been analyzed through PROMETHEE visual software, in order to prioritize effective criteria in urban management. Findings are based on a survey and interviews with 15 experts from urban affairs departments and other bodies related to urban management in Kermanshah to determine the superiority and weighting functions of the indicators and finally their ranking using the vp model. According to the ranking of components, the inefficiency index of the rules with pH + 1. Has the highest weight and the index of organizational relations with a weight of 0.00 ph. +. They have the lowest priority scoring challenges for urban management, which requires serious attention of city managers and decision makers.