Importance - Performance Analysis of Good Governance Indicators in the Regeneration of the Deteriorated Fabrics of the City of Sāri

Document Type : Research article - extracted from the dissertation

Authors

1 PhD student, Department of Geoghraphy and Urban Planning, Faculty Member, Islamic Azad University, Noor, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Geoghraphy and Urban Planning, Faculty Member, Islamic Azad University, Noor, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Climatologhy, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Noor, Iran.

4 Associate Professor, Department of Gheomorphology, Islamic Azad University, Noor, Iran.

10.22124/gscaj.2025.26576.1290

Abstract

The deteriorated urban fabric of the city of Sāri, which is mostly located in the central core of the city, has decayed over time. This process has led to the loss of its socio-economic functionality and vitality, creating conditions conducive to the emergence of various social issues. Recently, urban regeneration has been adopted and promoted as one of the appropriate policies and approaches for intervening in deteriorated urban areas. Therefore, this study aimed to identify and analyze the importance of the performance of good governance indicators for the regeneration of deteriorated urban areas in Sāri. This study is descriptive-analytical in nature and method, and applied-developmental in terms of its objective. The data were collected using a mixed approach (documentary and survey methods) and analyzed using the Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) method. 384 households were selected using Cochran's formula by a random sampling. The softwares used in this research were SPSS and Smart PLS. The findings based on the IPA matrix indicated that out of the eight evaluated indicators, six indicators — transparency (Code 1), participation (Code 5), efficiency (Code 4), consensus orientation (Code 3), legalism (Code 6), and equity (Code 8) — fall into the first quadrant (low performance). This indicates that, despite the high importance of these indicators, their performance is low, representing system weaknesses that should be prioritized for corrective actions and improvements. The indicators of accountability (Code 2) and responsibility (Code 7) fall into the third quadrant (apathy) and both their importance and performance are low, these indicators are not considered threatening to the system. Based on the study's findings, most indicators fall into the low-performance area, requiring significant corrective actions to achieve the regeneration of deteriorated urban areas in Sāari. The highest-priority indicators were equity, legalism, and the critical aspects of participation and consensus orientation.

Highlights

- In addition to having a significant level, all good governance indicators showed a negative result in the P-I (Performance-Importance) relationship. This indicated that all indicators are far from the ideal state.

- Most of the indicators (Good Governance) are in the weak area (IP matrix) in order to achieve the regeneration of the deteriorated fabrics of Sāri, they need drastic corrective measures.

- Most priority indicators are justiceism, legalism and important discussion participation and consensus.

- On macro view, the legal mechanisms have not been able to create the conditions necessary for achieving good urban governance.

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