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With the expansion of urbanization, numerous challenges and issues have emerged, rendering centralized top-down planning ineffective in urban management. Consequently, one of the most important approaches to creating a sustainable and inclusive city is focusing on the fundamental unit of urban planning, namely the concept of neighborhood and neighborhood management. A neighborhood encompasses three dimensions of physical planning, social organization, and governance. Among these, considering the governance dimension, examining contextual needs, and laying the groundwork for defining a neighborhood-centric model are of paramount importance. To elucidate the neighborhood management model in urban governance by adopting an exploratory-descriptive approach in the metropolis of Tabriz. This research employs a Partial Least Squares (PLS) approach as a second-generation non-parametric method of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). It validates a model by simultaneously examining the roles of variables. SmartPLS 4 software and questionnaire tools are utilized. Additionally, reliability tests, Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, composite reliability, validity, and average variance extracted (AVE) are examined for each component, indicating satisfactory reliability and validity. The sample size is calculated based on the total population of Tabriz in the latest census of 2016, which is 163,096 individuals, using the Cochran formula, resulting in 384 participants.The research findings indicate that among the factors in terms of effect size, the network society structure ranks first with an index value of 5.254, followed by urban governance, network society policies, social capital, and governance capacity with values of 2.873, 2.630, 2.555, and 1.695 respectively. Regarding the path coefficient index, urban governance ranks first with a path coefficient of 0.288, followed by the network society structure, network society policies, social capital, and governance capacity with coefficients of 0.268, 0.228, 0.204, and 0.181 respectively.The research concludes that in elucidating the factors effective in realizing the neighborhood management model, attention to the network society structure and its three characteristics—decentralization, virtualization, and intelligence, along with the freedom of activities, plays a fundamental role.i [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
