Assessment of urban areas sustainability, Case study: Kermanshah, Iran

sustainable development is the balance between various economic, social and environmental aspects which aims at improving the quality of human life. The aim of this study is to evaluate the six different areas of Kermanshah city based on urban sustainable development indicators.

The research is applied and its method is descriptive-analytical. The level of development of different areas of Kermanshah has been studied using three methods, SAW, ELECTRE and TOPSIS in conjunction with Shannon's entropy and enjoying 44 effective indices in sustainable urban development as well as ELECTRE, TOPSIS, Excel, Shannon's entropy, SPSS soft wares.

The results of this study indicate that in all three methods, 1 and 4 districts showed a higher stability. While areas 2 and 3 had an average sustainability and areas 5 and 6 showed less sustainability. Friedman's test results show that there is no significant difference among the three models in ranking the urban areas.

Given the results of this study, the level of urban services and amenities is not the same in different areas. So establishing a harmonious relationship among the six areas of Kermanshah to achieve sustainable development seems necessary.