Analysis of indicators of the movement of slow-cities in fifteen regions of Isfahan

 Nowadays, phrases such as fast paced world, rapid environmental changes, fast transportation, and so on, are much heard. In the era of acceleration, humans are advised not to get lagged from the speed convoy. Accordingly, a new paradigm, called slow-city, is emerging. Slow-Cities movement was created in 1986, as a cultural movement to enhance the quality of life and reducing speed in urban areas. The movement initially began with the idea of cooking slow foods, against fast food, also protesting against McDonald's food chain, then gradually developed. Esfahan with a history of Sustainable urbanization; is moving towards being a fast-city in the current age. Disorderliness in traditional quarters, car-basedness, creating broad highways, Unplanned density-selling, a lot of fastfood shops, lack of attention to greenways, etc., encourage people to join this acceleration. One of the objectives of this research is the analysis of slow-city indicators in Isfahan; and this assessment for Isfahan, with a chronic acceleration, can be considered as an effective solution in slow and enjoyable urban development. This paper is based on the slow-city indicing, which benefiting from the combination of objective and subjective indices from different sources, first fulfills the process of codification and domesticitation of indices; then, analyzes about 50 slowing indicators in Isfahan's 15 regions, through combining objective methods (data collection based in the objective indices and standards), and field-questionnaire methods, using elites' opinions. results showed that regions 3, 5 and 10 had the highest rank in terms of slow-city indicators, and the second rank included regions 6, 1, and 15. The worst situation was for regions 8, 13 and 9, having lowest scores in this ranking. Innovation: Due to the less attention having been paid in Iran and especially in Isfahan to the slow-city indicators, this research is considered innovative in this regard.