Farideh Najafi; Azizpour Farhad
Abstract
Today, the spatial view of development at the national, regional, and local levels is so important that most countries pay special attention to it in their policy-making and planning systems. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the content of the fifth five-year development plan of the Islamic ...
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Today, the spatial view of development at the national, regional, and local levels is so important that most countries pay special attention to it in their policy-making and planning systems. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the content of the fifth five-year development plan of the Islamic Republic of Iran from the perspective of spatial planning. The research method is descriptive-analytical. The statistical population of this research is the document of the Fifth Development Plan of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2011-2016. In addition to various previous researches and valid documents, the opinions of professors were used to compile the criteria and indicators of the present study. In order to achieve the goal, the required data and information were collected by the documentary method. Content analysis and Shannon entropy method were used to analyze the data. Findings showed that the three categories of centralism, poor participation and comparative advantage are obstacles to the realization of the spatial planning attitude in the Fifth Development Plan document. Among these factors, the emphasis on comparative advantage is the most important factor that has caused the spatial attitude not to be considered in the development of the country's policy-making and planning system. This result emphasizes that: 1- Areas with potential for development were prioritized, and 2- Due to the dominance of the public sector in the formulation and implementation of plans and programs and special attention to areas with potential, people's participation is low.
