Assessment of Economic and Social Sustainability in Urban Areas by Using Multiple Criteria Decision-Making Techniques (AHP) (Case Study: Neigborhoods of District No.1 in Gorgan)

Sustainability indicators in urban societies, as the pooneer indicators of sustainability and reflecting the fundamental and main components for the economic, social or environmental health of society in the long run and over generations; therefore, the emphasis on the sustainability of urban spaces which deponds on the social, economical, environmental and Management sustainability has a great importance for achieving urbanization desires. Meanwhile, measuring and evaluating sustainability criteria in urban neighborhoods, as the smallest unit of the City Space Organization, provides a framework for achieving sustainability goals. In the present study, in order to achieve this important, firstly, using library and documentary studies, a comprehensive index of urban sustainability assessment indicators was prepared in the areas under discussion and through collecting and sistributing questionnaires, the selected criteria at the level of the neighborhoods of the study area Has been collected and quantified.In order to analyze the indicators, a multi-criteria decision-making technique (AHP) has been used. The results of the research, on the one hand, indicate that this method demonstrates a favorable spatial analysis of the socio-economic sustainability status at the level of the neighborhoods of district No.1 of Gorgan and on the other hand suggests asignificant differences at the level of economic and social sustainability of the various urban neighborhoods of Gorgan . so that in the studied neighborhoods, the one with a weight of 0.0835 has the highest rank among the social sustainability level and district No.5 with a weight of 0.2352, which has the highest rank among the neighborhoods in terms of the level of economic sustainability, indicating inequalities and high gaps in the investigated neighborhood.