Evaluating the compatibility of urban research and contemporary urban challenges in Iran

Direct relationship between research and implementation area leads to growth and efflorescence. It seems that one of the most consequential problems of urban researches in Iran is their irrelevancy with Iranian urban context. For concerns and challenges of Iranian researches are extracted from the research conducted in developed countries. This will be accompanied with the waste of the researchers' time and energy and their inefficacy to resolve urban problems and challenges. “The urban researches in Iran are not applicable to the real challenges of Iranian cities”. In order to examine the mentioned hypothesis, “The existing problems of Iranian cities” and “Iranian urban researches” were compared by means of urban news and research journals. The framework analysis method [A type of qualitative research method] was used to analyze the data in the form of axial-thematic codes. The theoretical framework was prepared and generated on the basis of codified contemporary urban problems. The process of coding and generating a theoretical framework went through three steps of open, focused and thematic coding. The present findings showed that the researches conform to problems with regard to themes approximately 78 percent but the importance and preference of both themes and axial codes in researches differ from the existing problems which indicate the irrelevancy of some researches to concerning problems.