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Many experts attribute the city dwelling problems of present-day Iran to the swift, large-scale migration from rural to urban areas, as well as to rapid socio- economic conversions. Yet, others identify such problems with variables such as politics, power, and cultural traits.
While a correlation may exist between the city dwelling problems and the aforementioned, it is certainly the obsolete aspects of our city structural designs that should be accounted for as well.
When the prevailing “System Theory” was revealing “Experiential Holism’s” weaknesses and “Comprehensive plans” were being replaced by “Structural plans”, it was the “Comprehensive plans” which were formally adopted in the development and the expansion of Iranian cities in 1970.
Furthermore, while today’s structural designs are internationally leaning towards the “Strategical approach”, and while almost twenty five years have passed, we still continue with the same old approach.
In practice (and not in theory, of course), our cities have turned into greatly condensed masses of people and buildings which has resulted in complications on many levels and which in turn should prompt us to abandon the obsolete “Comprehensive plans” in exchange for a “Structural-Strategical plan.”