The Study of Citizenship Culture in Urban Management of Tehran

Today, the concept of citizenship culture has become of particular interest to urban management. Citizenship as a social and political phenomenon is the important characteristics of democratic systems and a key indicator for modern society. Therefore, direct involvement of people seems necessary in developing policy, priorities and targets for creating and spreading citizenship culture. Accordingly, this paper has studied the citizenship culture in urban management of Tehran. The method was qualitative using interviews with municipal managers. Besides, "content analysis" (thematic) study was used for semi-structured interview. The results show that the multiplicity and diversity of legislation in the field of town and civil affairs authorities and the rules and regulations concerning to duties of municipalities caused important effects. On the one hand, the municipality carried out a series of actions that are not so clear in the framework of legal authorizations. On the other hand, the set of work in the municipality do not carry, and the legislative do not specify it, but the municipality do it. Finally, it can be concluded that the laws and regulations in force categorize in three classes of citizenship culture elements that relating to city, citizens and the municipality, these are challenged with each other. Thus, it could be considered three basic problems: Lack of enforcement of laws and city regulations, the ambiguity in the laws and city regulations, and gaps in the laws and city regulations. Each of problems has its consequences.