Abstract: Urban regeneration is a step beyond the intentions, hopes and achievements of urban renewal, urban development and urban rehabilitation. Regeneration plans try to use the existing potentials of worn out area and therefore, try to take advantage of widespread public participation with minimal budget to restore social life and economic prosperity of the texture. This study is a literature review which has been done by searching in internal databases such as SID, Magiran, ISC and oversea databases such as web of science, scopus, prequest, Google scholar, etc., from 2007 onwards and by keywords such as development, regeneration, urban regeneration and texture worn. Sustainable regeneration approach is one of the newest universally accepted approaches to deal with worn out textures. These urban textures confront special structural and functional problems and obstacles at various domains. Therefore, it has been tried to restore social life and economic prosperity of the texture by take advantage of widespread public participation with minimal budget. Regeneration is a subject that has been raised to organize historical centers of the country. The concept has been known as reconstruction, renewal, rehabilitation and re-organization and now regeneration covers the entire subject and its goal is to renew the city aligned with people contribution at social, economic and environmental domains in order to improve the quality of life in historic city centers and neighborhoods in relation to the entire city as well.