Determining the level of development of the eleven regions of Shiraz city in terms of urban and cultural service indicators

The expansion of urbanization and the specific issues and problems of urban life, has made it increasingly necessary to pay full attention to beneficial strategies to optimize the lives of city dwellers. In this regard, the concept of sustainable urban development as a broad conceptual framework moves towards achieving economic growth and social justice. The study and knowledge of urban areas and analysis of their capabilities and bottlenecks in the urban planning process is very important. The main purpose of this study is to assess the development of eleven areas of Shiraz in terms of sustainable urban development criteria "urban and cultural services" in 24 indicators. This research is applied theory in terms of purpose and descriptive-quantitative and analytical in terms of nature and method. The information and data required in this research have been collected using library resources and statistics in 1397. For analysis, first the data is standardized and finally it is ranked using the Morris and Scalo gram methods of the eleven districts of Shiraz. The results of the study based on the Morris method showed that in terms of urban and cultural services index of regions one and eight with scores of 47.47 and 42.13 in the first and second ranks and regions five, four and eleven with scores of 22.55 and 15.93. And 12.52 are in the last place. Also, according to the Scalo gram method, regions one and eight are in the first place with 55 and 49 points. The results of this study indicate the existence of a gap between the eleven regions of Shiraz in terms of benefiting from the studied indicators, and among these, region one is ranked first in terms of development due to the political and economic centrality due to the existence of urban facilities.