Urban design has been used in the cities throughout the world to
achieve certain goals and purposes. It has been common in developing
countries, including Iran, to use urban regeneration plans in the older
sections of large cities to eliminate urban blight and decay, and
eventually achieve modernization and in some cases to also overcome
socio-economic and cultural problems. Approaches have been used are
modernist, technocratic, and elitist type of design/ decision-making,
which, as, the present case study show, results in complete failure.
This study intends to, following a discussion on theoretical basis of
the issue, through a post-construction/ post-occupancy evaluation of
the Navab Regeneration Project in central Tehran, explore the reasons
behind this failure and see how the problems involved in the product
may be construed to the kind of design/decision-making process applied