fa Urban Planning Urban Planning Research Paper Research Paper <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">&ldquo;The urban researches in Iran aren&#39;t applicable to the real challenges of Iran&rsquo;s cities&rdquo;. In order to examine the mentioned hypothesis, &ldquo;existing problems of Iran&rsquo;s cities&rdquo; and &ldquo;Iran&rsquo;s urban researches&rdquo; are compared by means of the urban news and research journals. The framework analyze method [a kind of qualitative research method] has been used to analyze the data in the form of axial-thematic codes. The findings showed researches conform to problems approximately 78 percent in themes but the importance and preference of both themes and axial codes in researches differ from existing problems, which indicates some researches don&#39;t concern problems.</p> urban problems, urban research, urban planning education, framework analysis software 175 186 http://ijaup.iust.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-11-1036-1&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 G. Vahidi Borji goldis_vahdi@yahoo.com 180031947532846003222 180031947532846003222 Yes Schoolof Architecture, Boujnourd Branch Islamic Azad University, Boujnourd, Iran F. Aliakbari aliakbari_fatemeh@ymail 180031947532846003223 180031947532846003223 No School of Urban Design, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran