The number of Iran’s metropolises half of the EU
IUESA: Noting that urbanization trend has been increased significantly, Seyyed Mohsen Tabatabaei Mozdabadi, the Secretary of international conference on urban economy said this growth has involved developing countries with major challenges.
Emphasizing that urban areas of Asia and Africa will cover almost all the world population from 2015 to 2015, the official said 90 percent of 2.5 billion people estimated to be added to the world would live in Asia and Africa. In our country, urbanization trend reached to 71 percent in 2011 from 31 percent in 1956.
Highlighting that managers, planners, and policy-makers should know that they will confront with more densely populated cities in the future, he added according to statistics, there were only 13 metropolitan areas with more than one million population in 1900 while it has been more than 300 ones in the beginning of the 21st century. In other words, the 21st century may be called metropolises’ century.
Saying that only 23 metropolises with more than one million people exist in the European :::union::: and only 5 percent of the European people live in the cities with more than 5 million people, he added in the contrast, there are more than 10 metropolises with one million people in Iran and more than 30 percent of Iranian live in metropolises.
Stressing that smart cities are known as a set of tools in various scales that facilitate the flow of information, people, material, and energy, he further said they integrate information and make the available for the service of specific goals for improvement of sustainability efficiency and quality of life.
It is noteworthy that the first international conference on urban economy, with the approach of resistance economy; implementation and action, was held in conference hall of Bank Shahr in Tehran.
Many scientific and administrative figures, including Dr. Hossein Mohammadpour Zarandi, CEO of Bank Shahr and president of IUESA, Dr. Davoud Danesh Jafari, Ex Economy minister, Dr. Jafar Qaderi, member of planning and budget of the Parliament, Mohammadreza Pourebrahimi, representative of Kerman, Mohammad Mahdi Zahedi, Head of Education and Research Commission of the Parliament, Brigadier General Teymoor Hosseini, the head of traffic police in Tehran, Alireza Javid, Technical Deputy of Tehran Municipality, Mohammad Khodadi, Secretary General of Asian Mayors Forum, Gashtasb Mozaffari, Deputy Director of the International Centre for Communication and International Affairs Tehran Municipality, Hasan Ghafourifard, Former MP and many other figures participated at this event.
“Economy of smart city”, “economy of urban tourism”, “economy of urban infrastructures”, “economic culture of city and citizenship education”, “urban dilemmas, the environment, and air pollution, management of human capital development and urban economy, banking systems, social banking, and urban economy, modeling resistance economy in cities and urban passive defense, pricing urban services, financing, and municipal revenues, management of municipal service, organizations of urban management, and private sector” were discussed topics at this conference.
Three panels including “resistance economy, Islamic banking, and urban finance”, “economy of smart city”, and “urban infrastructure and smart city” were held in the sidelines of this conference.
The book of “social banking with the approach of urban economy and human resources training” written by Dr. Hossein Mohammadpour Zarandi and Seyyed Mohsen Tabatabaei Mozdabadi was unveiled at this event.
It is worth mentioning that administrative managers from Italy, Georgia, Turkey, South Korea, and Thailand shared their experiences with Iranian researchers. |
