Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Abbas shieh ¹
• Zahra Hosseini ²
• Negin Hojjati ³
• Rojin Raofi ⁴

¹ Faculty of Architecture and Art, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

² Master of urban planning, Faculty of Architecture and Art, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

³ Ph.D. Student of urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and Art, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

⁴ Master of urban planning, Faculty of Architecture and Art, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

If the development of the local economy relies on the improvement of competitive local enterprises, it will attract domestic investment, improve human capital, increase work skills, improve local infrastructure and balanced economic development in the localities. Creativity as a foundation can cause economic growth and development in many contemporary societies. As a cultural and commercial source, creative industries are the most powerful part of the economy, and their use in planning areas leads to the development of the local economy and, consequently, the development of the national economy. The creative city will also lead to economic growth and development by having creative industries and attracting creative forces. Farahzad neighborhood has the ability to adopt the creative city approach in strengthening the local economy in order to improve the employment situation and empower people for two reasons: one is that it has suitable ecological resources and active institutions, and the second is that it suffers from unfavorable socio-economic conditions and the existence of informal jobs. This research has been done in three stages to achieve its goals. In the first step, by reviewing the theoretical literature, the dimensions of talent, technology, tolerance, land property and urban participation were determined. In the second stage, areas with planning priority based on existing spatial, social and physical commonalities include; low security, inadequate access and roads, existence of environmental problems, lack of ownership documents, low level of social interactions in the area, economic problems, poor condition of housing and existence of cultural differences between different ethnic groups were identified. In the last step, the criteria in the eligible planning areas were evaluated through interviews. Then, by analyzing the interviews through the MAXQDA software, the role of the components in the development of the local economy of Farahzad has been identified. Therefore, each of the examined dimensions was considered as follows: the dimension of land assets with seven components include; historical background, role of tourism, religion, traditional gardens, Farahzad river, restaurants and mountain section; the technology dimension with the component of having mobile internet; talent dimension with four components i.e., Possession of cultural institutions, residents' skills, desire to learn skills and desire for education, and urban participation dimension with three components; enjoying the diversity of different ethnic groups, following up on existing problems and participating in construction projects.

Keywords

• Creative City
• Local Economy Development
• Creative Workforce
• Creative Industries
• Farahzad Neighbor