Analysis of urban community development analysis based on stable development indexes (Case study of Mahabad city

Rapid growth of urbanization and its complications in recent decades has absorbed urban planner's attention to stability and stable development issues. In this regard community which is the core stone of urban development stayed away from formal system of spatial planning, and established communities are in contrast with preserving stable development rules and principals, therefore this research conducted through descriptive-analytical approaches with the aim of analysis of stability status in studied communities also extracts and compares stability rate and stability levels of selected communities located in four texture of old, middle and new and informal settlement based on 5 main indexes (physical, social-cultural, economic, service, environmental) and 44 sub indexes. at the beginning by using quantity Topsis model and Shannon Entropy weights, communities are being ranked, the ranking of established districts in middle and old texture because of vicinity to the downtown and good facilities, were in better ranking and new built communities and unofficially settlements which developed in recent years placed in lower rankings based on this comparison, then under study communities categorized in three levels of stable, semi-stable and unstable using cluster analysis model, in this regard established communities in middle and old texture were in stable level, newly built communities were in semi stable and unofficial settlement districts are formed in unstable level.