Marziyeh Shahryari; Fatemeh Hamidi
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Informal housing is a common style of urban growth in most developing countries and is organized somehow which is neither urban nor rural. This study aimed to understand the daily life experience of citizens in the suburbs of Hoveyzeh city in Khuzestan province. The research method in this research was ...
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Informal housing is a common style of urban growth in most developing countries and is organized somehow which is neither urban nor rural. This study aimed to understand the daily life experience of citizens in the suburbs of Hoveyzeh city in Khuzestan province. The research method in this research was based on the qualitative method in the form of data theory and the data collection technique was semi-structured interviews and participatory field observations. To achieve the research objectives, 20 residents of these areas have been purposefully selected. Interviews continued until the saturation of data. After coding, 21 main categories of data emerged, each of which was analyzed based on the text of the interviews. In terms of conditions including (lack of support and skills, disregard for spatial justice, the need to change the space for social change, sense of abandonment, direct experience of war, actors' mental contexts, historical criticism of the produced space, marginalized lifestyle, acceptance and normal Marginal life, destiny and heredity, local dependence on interests and connections, combination of fear and narrative) and in the action-interaction dimension (confrontation, conflict, comparison, feeling of despair in changing the situation, the blind cycle of poverty) and in Then there are the consequences (marginalization of the marginalized, the principles of the right to the city as a missing link, the combination of fear and narrative, self-reliance) that have formed around a core category called (bio-luxury and return to habit). Finally, after extracting the findings, using the GIS, the relationship between location and the incidence of injuries is discussed and the results are expressed analytically and graphically. Also, the results of the spatial analysis show that among the vulnerability components, most of Hoveyzeh's areas are exposed to security and psychological vulnerabilities.
Ali Mohammadzadeh; Amin seyyednosrati
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Today, organizational knowledge is the most important asset of any organization that is openly or covertly available to human capital. Establishing knowledge management leads to organizational transformation and productivity increases dramatically. This issue is very important for municipalities, whose ...
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Today, organizational knowledge is the most important asset of any organization that is openly or covertly available to human capital. Establishing knowledge management leads to organizational transformation and productivity increases dramatically. This issue is very important for municipalities, whose performance is directly related to increasing the welfare of citizens and the quality of urban life. This study tries to help the policymakers and implementers in the direction of knowledge management by analyzing the current situation of knowledge management and its establishment in Tehran Municipality. Along with this, 18 employees who are currently dealing with knowledge management in Tehran Municipality were interviewed semi-structured. The data were presented after implementation using the data theory strategy of the Analysis Foundation. The findings were presented within the framework of the Strauss and Corbin model. Findings indicate that despite the formation of the Knowledge Management Steering Committee in Tehran Municipality and the unified communication of regulations for the entire organization, lack of support from senior managers for the implementation of knowledge management, lack of macro-management in managers, high turnover rate, and the like, It has created challenges for the optimal deployment of knowledge management in this important organization with 65,000 manpower. In this regard, it is suggested that while confronting any kind of trial and error, the policy-making body be merged with the knowledge management implementation body in the municipality, and for some related organizational positions in different municipal units, the mission-related to knowledge management be defined.
Farzaneh Ghasemi; Abdollah Parsa; Yadollah Mehralizadeh; Sakineh Shahi
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This study aimed at designing a model for developing a learning city with a focus on the university role in metropolis city of Ahvaz. The research is based on the Grounded theory. The statistical population included faculty members of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz and Ahvaz municipality managers. ...
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This study aimed at designing a model for developing a learning city with a focus on the university role in metropolis city of Ahvaz. The research is based on the Grounded theory. The statistical population included faculty members of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz and Ahvaz municipality managers. Snowball sampling was purposeful and continued until the researcher reached a saturated decision after interviewing 23 samples. After analyzing the interviews’ data, 834 open codes extracted, 38 categories developed and following the three steps of coding, the learning city model was presented. The model focuses on the university with six main categories. The designed model could be used as a strategic or operational model in municipality of Ahvaz city. Based on the data, the consequences and implications of a collaboration between the city and university are as follows: social development and maturating of the citizens, developing social urban activities, increasing cultural and scientific associations, improving urban decisions, upgrading university and municipality cooperation, increasing public awareness and responsibility of the citizens and officials regarding the education, teaching, innovation in urban landscapes and landscape and the obligation of preparing tutorials for any projects in the learning city and improving the municipality collaboration in national and international levels.
