Analyzing the position of city strategic development indices (CDS) in Ilam City

The growth of population and urbanization in recent years have increased the attention to urban planning andmanagement. Making plans of the perspectives and development is one of the strategies which the urban officials use it to avoid the probable problems in urban management. The City Development Strategy (CDS) is a strategic uideline which has been welcomed by many developing countries. Hence, the aim of this study is to analyze the position of CDS’s indices in Ilam City. It is an analytical-descriptive research. The statistical population includes the experts of urban management and citizens of Ilam City that 80 of the experts were chosen as the sample by the Convenience Sampling Method and 384 of citizens were chosen by Simple Random Sampling Method. Then, they were given the questionnaires. The questionnaire is researcher-made which its validity was confirmed by the university teachers and its reliability was confirmed . 914 by Cronbach's alpha. To analyze the data, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, binominal-test, Kruskal–Wallis test and Friedman test were done. The findings reveal that the conditions of urban development indices in Ilam City are improper with the mean of 2. 754 according to the experts and 2. 448 according to the citizens. Moreover, the opinions of both groups of the statistical population are different from each other about the importance of CDSs except about the strategy of banking with the approach of technology. The most important city development strategy in Ilam City is banking with the approach of technology according to both experts and citizens with the mean of 2. 571