Assessing the Challenges of Improving Urban Governance in Medium-Sized Cities with a Futuristic Research Approach (Case Study: Middle City)

The planning processes that city managers guide in the context of governance in the face of urban development challenges ensure transparency and accountability mechanisms. However, this can only be achieved if officials and citizens are able to use these mechanisms effectively and efficiently. In this study, while evaluating the challenges of promoting urban governance in the middle middle city with a future research approach, key factors and the relationships between them have been analyzed and ranked. Based on this, the present research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of methodology. In the first part, by reviewing the basics and extracting the most important key factors of urban governance, using the Delphi technique and consulting 30 experts, the indicators of consensus and certainty, ‌ priority and importance were evaluated. By determining the key factors and word parameters, a total of 43 key drivers for Word were prepared in Micmac software. Of the 1806 values ​​calculated in the initial crossover matrix, 701 were highly impacted, 848 were moderately impacted, 257 were low-impact, and 43 were highly impacted. Assessing the status of impact and effectiveness of key factors shows that among the eight main factors, participation, accountability, justice and regularity have been the most influential dimensions on the process of middle urban development. Also, among the 10 key and important drivers of variables, the effective role of implementing citizens' decisions in preparing urban development plans and the accountability of city managers and officials to citizens as two-dimensional and effective variables have been the most important.

The planning processes that city managers guide in the context of governance in the face of urban development challenges ensure transparency and accountability mechanisms. However, this can only be achieved if officials and citizens are able to use these mechanisms effectively and efficiently. In this study, while evaluating the challenges of promoting urban governance in the middle middle city with a future research approach, key factors and the relationships between them have been analyzed and ranked. Based on this, the present research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of methodology. In the first part, by reviewing the basics and extracting the most important key factors of urban governance, using the Delphi technique and consulting 30 experts, the indicators of consensus and certainty, ‌ priority and importance were evaluated. By determining the key factors and word parameters, a total of 43 key drivers for Word were prepared in Micmac software. Of the 1806 values ​​calculated in the initial crossover matrix, 701 were highly impacted, 848 were moderately impacted, 257 were low-impact, and 43 were highly impacted. Assessing the status of impact and effectiveness of key factors shows that among the eight main factors, participation, accountability, justice and regularity have been the most influential dimensions on the process of middle urban development. Also, among the 10 key and important drivers of variables, the effective role of implementing citizens' decisions in preparing urban development plans and the accountability of city managers and officials to citizens as two-dimensional and effective variables have been the most important.
The planning processes that city managers guide in the context of governance in the face of urban development challenges ensure transparency and accountability mechanisms. However, this can only be achieved if officials and citizens are able to use these mechanisms effectively and efficiently. In this study, while evaluating the challenges of promoting urban governance in the middle middle city with a future research approach, key factors and the relationships between them have been analyzed and ranked. Based on this, the present research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of methodology. In the first part, by reviewing the basics and extracting the most important key factors of urban governance, using the Delphi technique and consulting 30 experts, the indicators of consensus and certainty, ‌ priority and importance were evaluated. By determining the key factors and word parameters, a total of 43 key drivers for Word were prepared in Micmac software. Of the 1806 values ​​calculated in the initial crossover matrix, 701 were highly impacted, 848 were moderately impacted, 257 were low-impact, and 43 were highly impacted. Assessing the status of impact and effectiveness of key factors shows that among the eight main factors, participation, accountability, justice and regularity have been the most influential dimensions on the process of middle urban development. Also, among the 10 key and important drivers of variables, the effective role of implementing citizens' decisions in preparing urban development plans and the accountability of city managers and officials to citizens as two-dimensional and effective variables have been the most important.