Critical Review of Local Patterns of Urban Planning in the Laws and Approvals of Iran Using the Opinions and Ideas of Max Weber

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Ph.D Student, Department of Urban Planning, Faculty of Urban Planning, Fine Arts Campus, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

After the revolution of 1979 and considering the Islamic nature of the revolution, policy makers have been trying to introduce local models based on the Iranian-Islamic lifestyle by extracting criteria from religious texts and the lifestyle of the Iranian people. These models were gradually included in the documents of the country and entered the laws related to the specialized fields of urban planning. The purpose of this research is to use Max Weber's method in the studies of urban societies and to benefit from the process of Weber's understanding method and to provide Ideal Types for connection between the specific and the general for the statistics of a specific scientific circle, in order to criticize the urban planning models presented in the laws, and from this point of view, it is distanced from Weber's view of the eastern settlements and by using Weber's method in the study of different cities, criticism of the production mechanisms of local patterns of the country's urban planning are discussed in the form of current laws. For this purpose, the strategies of 8 official documents of the country analyzed and evaluated using the method of critical discourse analysis and in the context of Weber's theories. The results of this research show that most of the urban planning models introduced in the country's official documents have little positive content, and few positive and proof cases do not have common definitions and proper scientific methodology. Also, most of the cases mentioned in the documents are general and tend to be relativistic and they cannot provide a coherent Ideal Types of the native model in question. Benefiting from Weber's method in historical sociological studies of Iranian cities can become a new horizon in providing reliable models for the growth and promotion of the country's urban planning knowledge.

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Journal of Applied Arts
Volume 4, Issue 2 - Serial Number 14
September 2024
Pages 5-24

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History

  • Receive Date: 15 January 2024
  • Revise Date: 10 February 2024
  • Accept Date: 04 March 2024

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