Measuring urban sustainability and its effect on quality of life indicators with integrated multi-criteria decision-making approach (Case study: District 2 of Tehran)

Environmental sustainability assessment is largely dependent on a thorough understanding of thefactors influencing sustainability and how they are selected. Therefore, the purpose of thisdissertation is to identify, select and localize the desired indicators in relation to environmentalsustainability and on the other hand its relationship with quality of life indicators in District 2 ofTehran.

The questionnaires were completed by two groups (experts and citizens) to determine the indicators and then analyzed and evaluated the research options were ranked using VIKOR and LINMAP methods. The options considered in this study are 9 areas in District 2 of Tehran

The results show that The results showed alpha coefficient was calculated to measure the internal stability of the questionnaires. According to the results, alpha is 0.954 based on the completed questionnaire in the environmental sustainability assessment section by expert and based on the supplementary questionnaires of citizens is 0.875 and this indicates a go degree of internal reliability of the questionnairesis.

The results show that out of 6 criteria considered in the environmental sustainability assessment section, physical criterion with So that zone 8 with a score of 1has the lowest amount of environmental sustainability and zone 2 with a score of 0 has the highest amount of environmental sustainability. Also, the ranking results of the 9 districts of Region 2 using the Linamp method show that District 2 has the highest rank in terms of quality of life indicators and District 8 has the lowest quality in terms of quality of life indicators.