Volume 02,Issue 03

Classification of Urban Areas Sustainability using AHP Model and Multi Criteria Decision Making (Case Study: Rasht City)

Authors

Farzaneh Nasiri Jan Agha, Mohammad Ali Rahimipour Sheykhani Nejad, Mohammadreza Nasiri Jan Agha, Fereshteh Badkoobeh

Abstract
By the side of development and increase of population in big cities, manifestation of various complex economic-social problems within cities, and entrance of the third world big cities into the global economic system, pushed urban planning in new dimensions. Being familiar with development or non-development urban regions from stability point of view, we need to study regional inequality patterns and differences among urban areas and regions. This paper follows the aim of ranking urban areas and regions of Rasht city from stability perspective. The descriptive-analytical methodology is used in this paper and few models are applied. To rank the stability of triad regions and octave areas of Rasht, 36 defined indicators in social, economic, ecological-somatic and administrative-institutional dimensions were used by a questionnaire to investigate the current status. The findings were gathered by SPSS software and AHP method was applied to weigh the indicators. Finally, ranking of the regions and areas was carried out by TOPSIS method. Our result shows that among octave areas of Rasht, areas in the 1st region, place in the higher rank by the 0.865 preference coefficient, and areas in 2nd and 3rd regions place in the next ranks by the 0.316 and 0.204 preference coefficients, respectively. This demonstrates that based on the privilege level, there is a significant difference between areas of the 1st region and those from the 2nd and 3rd ones.

Keyword: Ranking, Stability, AHP, TOPSIS, Rasht urban regions.

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