Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Member of Faculty, University of Isfahan

2 Graduate Student of Geography and Rural Planning

Abstract

Planning is a deliberate process that anticipates a series of actions and related activities in the future in order to achieve specific goals. Planning methods can be considered in two horizontal (decentralization) and vertical (centralization) aspects. A study on decentralization and its role in rural development is an important issue that should be considered. In fact, the city and the countryside should be considered as one organism in which the relations between the city and the village should be considered with a view to decentralization, because the excessive attention to cities and centralization have stopped the growth of villages and led to evil growth of cities.
In the long term, this is beneficial neither to cities not villages; therefore, and because of the importance of this discussion in all economic, social and political spheres, we are going to present the concept of decentralization.