Comparative Evaluation of Neighborhoods in terms of Urban Prosperity Index Case Study: District 6 Neighborhoods of Tehran Metropolitan

Document Type : Science - Research

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.ng, University of Kharazmi

2 Ph.D. Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Msc. Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The aim of this research is a cooperative evaluation of the urban neighborhoods in district 6 of Tehran based on urban prosperity indicators. Applying urban prosperity in neighborhood planning is a new policy in sustainable urban development. This research based on the method, is descriptive-analytical and in terms of aim is applied. The data collection method was documentary library-based. The WASPAS model was used to rank the neighborhoods and the entropy model was used to weight the indicators. The results of applying the WASPAS decision making model show that there is a difference between the 14 neighborhoods of region 6 than the urban prosperity indexes. The innovation of the research is the use of a comparative and new model in determining and evaluating the indicators of urban prosperity in the urban neighborhoods of Tehran's sixth district.The ranking of neighborhoods in terms of urban prosperity indicated that the three neighborhoods of Yousefabad, Keshavarz and Valiasr had the favorable status with final scores of 0.337, 0.334 and 0.259, respectively, six neighborhoods with average status and five neighborhoods (Nizami Ganjavi, Jihad, Behjat Abad, Fatemi and Jamalzadeh) are in undesirable condition and are at the superiority of urban development planning. The results also showed that the urban prosperity environmental dimension had the most neighborhoods (11 neighborhoods) with undesirable conditions

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  • Receive Date: 15 July 2019
  • Revise Date: 22 November 2022
  • Accept Date: 12 February 2020

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