The Role of Public Participation in Promoting Urban Planning

Corresponding Author: Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari Department of Water Engineering, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 8415683111 , Iran Email: ostadaliaskari.k@of.iut.ac.ir kaveh.oaa2000@gmail.com Abstract: Each city has important and essential needs, which due to the development of modern cities, these needs occur despite to urban planning science. Future generation expectation of resources should also be consideredand urban planning should be defined and established based on participatory urbanization and citizen participation. The presence of citizens in decision-making and expressing their desire and needs in accordance with the current conditions of the community occurs in participatory urbanization. Participation has found a special place in urban planning theories. In today's world, people participation goes on like political, social, economic and so on. Planners make better use of popular forces to achieve a better society. This article tries to recall the planning process and the position of plannersand also uses a descriptive and comparative method to express the important theories of participatory urban development, such as the theory of Sherry Arnstein and Scott Davidson.