Identifying and Rating Challenges of Urban Regeneration Management (Case Study: District Ten of Municipality of Tehran)

Distressed urban areas suffer from a wide range of economic, social and physical issues and urban regeneration can be a proper response to these unfavorable conditions. District ten of municipality of Tehran (DTMT) located in central area of Tehran and 55 percent of its area is covered with decayed texture. As a result of diversity of tasks of urban management, there are numerous stakeholders involved in the urban regeneration process. This paper is practical in term of the goal, analytical in term of nature and survey in term of data collection. This paper seeks to answer what are the main challenges in the way of urban regeneration management in the DTMT? To answer this questions; First, theoretical and experimental literature on urban regeneration management was studied and features of DTMT as our case study were assessed. Second, the challenges of urban regeneration management in distressed textures of this district were identified through interviewing and content analysis method. Then, by open coding method, the identified challenges were classified according to two domains: spatial territory and urban functions. Drawing up a network of relationships between identified challenges proved that there are dominant relationships between them. In the next step, by PESTEL analysis and Analytical Network Process (ANP), it was determined that the conflict of interests between Renovation Organization of Municipality of Tehran (ROMT) and municipality of Tehran district ten and also the lack of adequate funding in ROMT are the main challenges in the way of urban regeneration management in the DTMT.