The Municipality of Isfahan is responsible for the management of the city of Isfahan, Isfahan Province, Iran. The highest-ranking official of this organization is the mayor of Isfahan, who is chosen by the Islamic City Council of Isfahan. The city of Isfahan has 15 administrative divisions and each division has its own mayor, who work under the mayor of Isfahan. The present mayor of Isfahan is Ali Ghasemzadeh.

History 
The municipality of Isfahan was founded in 1907. In that time, it was named Baladiyeh. The council of Baladiyeh appointed Haji Mohammad Ali Khan (The sheriff of Isfahan) as the chief of Baladiyeh, Mirza Mehdi Khan as the deputy and Mirza Abolhasan Khan for official services. But after two weeks, Haji Mohammad Ali Khan was replaced by Mirza Assadollah Vassigholmilk. Baladiyeh had at first only 25 members. In 1911, the Baladiyeh faced a financial crisis because of shortage of income and the chief of Baladieyeh resigned and council of Baladiyeh decided to decrease its range of activities and only look after the provisions of the city.

With the amendment of baladiyeh's law in 1930, the responsibility of choosing mayor was given to the Interior ministry.

Until 1927, Isfahan had only two main streets, Charbagh-e Hezar Jarib street and Charbagh-e Abbassi street, and several broad alleys. from 1935 after giving more powers to the municipality of Isfahan, the municipality decided to rebuild new streets and so Foroughi street, Modarres street, Jomhouri square, Bozorgmehr street and Soroush street were built and the neighborhoods Hatef, hafez, Sepah and Neshat were changed gradually to streets. In 1941 with allocating oil income to the municipality and increasing its income, the streets of Isfahan were asphalted and several garbage trucks were purchased.

In 2023 Isfahani workers were deployed to clean Iraqi cities.

Districts 

The city is divided into fifteen

Organizational structures 
 Deputy of administration and finance
 Deputy of research planning and IT
 Deputy of transportation and traffic
 Deputy of civil services
 Deputy of city planning and architecture
 Deputy of urban development 
 Deputy of cultural and social affairs
 Deputy of coordination of districts
 Municipalities of the 15 municipal districts

Dependent organizations 

 Fire and safety services
 Cemeteries
 Parks and green spaces
 Terminals
 Motorized services
 Development
 Subway
 Taxi services
 markets and regulation of occupations
 Designing
 Renovation and improvements
 Bus services
 Waste management
 Culture and Recreation
 IT and communication
 Beautification
 Transportation and cargo
 Sport

Mascots
It has for training recycling has trademarked a childrens books character called Pakiman.

Program 
The city has the "solar municipal 2036" will install and supply solar panels to its buildings.

The municipality parks department have developed dormant therapy for trees with Isfahan University of Technology .

Communication and International Affairs 
The Municipality runs city network Channel, Voice of city Isfahan radio program, IMNA, ESFAHAN -E- ZIBA ONLINE.

Isfahan’s Sister Cities are fifteen cities
 Xi’an, China since May 1989
 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia since July 1997
 Florence, Italy since September 1998
 Saint Petersbourg, Russia since May 1999
 Iași , Romania since May 1999
 Barcelona, Spain since January 2000
 Yerevan, Armenia since April 2000
 Kuwait since December 2004
 Fribourg, Germany since April 2000
 Havana, Cuba since March 2001
 Lahore, Pakistan since July 2004
 Dakar, Senegal since December 2009
 Baalbek, Lebanon since October 2010
 Samarkand, Uzbekistan since July 2021
 Porto, Portugal since July 2021

Future : Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Isfahan Municipality has memberships from

League of Historical Cities since 1994,  UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) since 2020, INTA since 2004, 

 Other network organizations
 Mayors for Peace since 2005
 Asian Mayors Forum since 2012
 Inter-City Intangible Cultural Cooperation Network (ICCN) since 2014 
 METROPOLIS since 1996
 CityNet of UNDP ,UN-HABITANT since 1991
 UNESCO Creative Cities Network
 WeGO since 2020
 WHO Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities since 2021
 Child Friendly Cities Initiative UNICEF since 2004

See also 
Adib Astronomy Teaching Centre
Math house

References 

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