Analysis of Organizational Network of Participatory Management in Urban Renaissance of Gorgans Historical Context

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

1 Institute for Culture, Art and Architecture

2 Associate. Prof., Department of urban and regional planning, Tarbiat Modares University

3 . Iranian Urban Development & Revitalization Corporation

4 Ph.D. Candidate in Islamic Urbanism, of Institute for Culture, Art and Architecture, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The hierarchal structures in organizations and unfamiliarity with the network relations governing the management of urban contexts have resulted in the lack of organizational cooperation and coordination in the field of management of such contexts. consequently, numerous problems have occurred in the renewal  of urban contexts. On the other hand, the in the recent years, the government has highlighted the necessity of participatory management founding Urban Regeneration Commission. The historical context of Gorgan is one of the Iran`s valuable contexts which like its other predecessors in other cities has suffered from numerous problems that its solution needs to inter-organizational cooperation. However, numerous organizations with different administrative structures are involved in this field. Therefore, this study is an attempt to analyze the participatory structure of organizational network responsible for the renewal of historical context of Gorgan. The main goal of this paper is  the analysis of organizational network in relation with participatory management of urban renaissance in the historical context of Gorgan. On this account, the study is seeking for identification of network features, interpretation of participatory structure and analysis of actors in this field. The main question of study is What are the features of the participatory structure of the organizational network used for the renewal of historical context of Gorgan? To answer this question, the study used descriptive- interpretative strategy in pragmatism paradigm of research. Data gathered through semi-structured interviews and then analysed by social network analysis method based on the data of inter-organizational relations.
The results of the study indicates that despite government's endeavor for founding Urban Regeneration Commission and its effects on renaissance network , the renaissance network of the historical context of Gorgan is still governed by a hierarchical structure and based on the central governance pattern, in which mentioned and referred in previous researchs. Moreover, the research findings indicated that the  inter-organizational relation could be deemed as coordination, which is formed due to the short-term relations for organizational coordination and data sharing. Considering the features of network participatory structure, the study has classified the network actors into three groups of active  agents, potential  agents, and indifferent agents .

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