RT - Journal Article T1 - The Effective Factors on the Strategic Position of the Supreme Council in the National Development of Iran JF - Geographical-Researches YR - 2021 JO - Geographical-Researches VO - 36 IS - 2 UR - http://georesearch.ir/article-1-832-en.html SP - 137 EP - 147 K1 - National Development K1 - Provincial Supreme Council K1 - Good Urban governance AB - Aims: This study aims to design a model for the factors influencing the improvement of the strategic position of the supreme council of the provinces in Iran's national development. Physical aspects of the city and the country's optimal future development are the studied fields in the current research. Methodology: This is a qualitative study in terms of the methodology according to the grounded theory. The statistical population includes the elites in the provinces' supreme council that are selected using snowball sampling and continued until the theoretical saturation with 12 people. Findings: There are 59 codes discovered for the main category of the research (good urban governance), 12 codes for the casual data condition, 36 codes for the contextual condition, 9 codes for the strategies, 11 codes for the intervening factors, and 54 codes for the consequences. 181 codes were extracted from the research interviews. Conclusion: according to the research findings, some factors such as the art and science of management, national resources, and managerial attitude can form a good urban governing that highlights strategies such as creativity thinking (divergent thinking) and peaceful approaches as the provincial supreme council strategies. Such strategies may have some results for instance the development-oriented approaches and sustainable development. LA eng UL http://georesearch.ir/article-1-832-en.html M3 ER -