Dr. Mostafa Behzadfar Armanshahr Architecture & Urban Development 2008-5079 16 44 2023 12 21 Designing a Social Participation Model for Developing the Peripheral Urban Texture of Razavi Shrine based on the Systematic Approach of Grounded Theory; Case Study: Sarshoor Neighborhood Designing a Social Participation Model for Developing the Peripheral Urban Texture of Razavi Shrine based on the Systematic Approach of Grounded Theory; Case Study: Sarshoor Neighborhood 223 238 183812 10.22034/aaud.2023.324712.2606 FA Esmaeel Kalate Rahmani Ph.D. Candidate of Urban Planning, Faculty of Art, Architecture and Urban Planning, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch, Iran. Koorosh Afzali Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning, Faculty of Art, Architecture and Urban Planning, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch, Iran (Corresponding Author). Javad Moeen Al-Dini Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch, Iran. Journal Article 2022 01 15 One of the critical concerns and issues in the management of the peripheral neighborhoods around the Razavi Shrine is how to participate and know the social participation process of residents living in this urban area. Although the tendency to social participation has increased in the Sarshoor Neighborhood located in the southern front of this texture due to the establishing of an institution like the social council of the neighborhood over recent years, there is a lack of qualitative studies and a theoretical model for residents’ participation. Hence, this study examines the formal and informal social participation process and its integration as a model through a qualitative method. Social participation has two formal and informal dimensions. This study aims to find the social participation model of residents who live in the Sarshoor Neighborhood in Mashhad to use it in urban planning through the identification and integration of formal and informal social participation models. The systematic approach of Grounded Theory (known as Straussian) has been used for this purpose. The data collecting instrument in this paper is direct observation with a guide form of observation, which has been designed to achieve the goal of this paper. As the outcome of integrated formal and informal participation processes, the social participation model relies on the strategy of the theme-oriented model of good work based on two objective and subjective fields. This model has two immediate, short-term, and low-range consequences and gradual, long-term, and extensive implications. The model of theme-oriented good work can be used if intervening conditions are controlled to reach urban governance and maximum use of public participation in the Sarshoor Neighborhood. One of the critical concerns and issues in the management of the peripheral neighborhoods around the Razavi Shrine is how to participate and know the social participation process of residents living in this urban area. Although the tendency to social participation has increased in the Sarshoor Neighborhood located in the southern front of this texture due to the establishing of an institution like the social council of the neighborhood over recent years, there is a lack of qualitative studies and a theoretical model for residents’ participation. Hence, this study examines the formal and informal social participation process and its integration as a model through a qualitative method. Social participation has two formal and informal dimensions. This study aims to find the social participation model of residents who live in the Sarshoor Neighborhood in Mashhad to use it in urban planning through the identification and integration of formal and informal social participation models. The systematic approach of Grounded Theory (known as Straussian) has been used for this purpose. The data collecting instrument in this paper is direct observation with a guide form of observation, which has been designed to achieve the goal of this paper. As the outcome of integrated formal and informal participation processes, the social participation model relies on the strategy of the theme-oriented model of good work based on two objective and subjective fields. This model has two immediate, short-term, and low-range consequences and gradual, long-term, and extensive implications. The model of theme-oriented good work can be used if intervening conditions are controlled to reach urban governance and maximum use of public participation in the Sarshoor Neighborhood. https://www.armanshahrjournal.com/article_183812_efe3d7c296941ddd31bad2effbe4d7ff.pdf