چکیده:
Nowadays, planning is no longer considered merely a scientific and technical career nor a
government responsibity. It rather functions as a bridge connecting the planners to institutional changes. In other words, the planning theory does not develop in a social, economic and political vacuum, but is formulated by individuals in social situations with the aim of clarifying the enviroment recommending appropriate procedures and processes. The purpose of this research was to identify the explanatory and normative capability of the Strategic Structural Plans theory in the context of institutionalism so as to enhance the capacity of its application in practice. For this purpose, the grounded theory was adopted as a research strategy within the framework of qualitative methodology. The data collection instruments involved desk study, interviews with experts, managers and specialists, collaborative observations on the environment. The research environment included macro and micro levels. At the macro level, the focus was on comprehensible conditions and components of Iranian spatial planning system, while the micro level served to examine on the local scale the urban planning and management through sample mining in Mashhad, Iran. As a result of this analysis, a total of 159 concepts, 44 categories and 9 major categories and 6 topics were recognized. Among the categories identified, institutionalism in the theory of Strategic Structural Plans was selected because of the frequent appearance in the data and its relation to other categories as axial category, where the paradigm model was outlined emphasizing on the causal and context condition, intervention, strategies and consequences.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The current research adopted the grounded theory with an emphasis on the planning theory as an evolving dialogue so as to explore the concepts and categories associated with this theory affected by the processes of institutional change, referring to the documents, resolutions, instructions and relevant literature based on qualitative content analysis of various sources, including strategic planning both in theory and practice.
Some of this characteristics include below: It focuses on a limited number of strategic key issues; It takes a critical view of the environment in terms of determining strengths and weaknesses in the context of opportunities and threats; It analyses problems, external trends, forces opportunities and resources; It identifies and gathers major actors (public and private); It allows for a broad (multilevel governance) and diverse (public, private, economic, civil society… ) involvement during the planning process; It creates solid, workable, longterm visions/perspectives and strategies at different levels taking into account the power structures political, economic, gender, cultural, ethnic, uncertainties and competing values; It designs planmaking structures and develops content, images and decision frameworks for influencing and managing spatial change; It is about building new ideas and processes that can carry them forward, generating ways of understanding, providing some building agreements, and organizing and mobilizing for the purpose of exerting influence in different arenas; It focuses, both in the short and the long term, on framing decisions, actions, projects, results and implementation and incorporates a clear link to the budget, monitoring, evaluation, feedback, adjustment and revision (Healey,1997a;1997b; 2007; Faludi & Van der Valk,1994; Kunzmann, 2000; Mintzberg,1994; Poister & Streib, 1999; Albrechts, 2003; 2004).