Analytical Evaluation of Urban Development of Performance with Green City Criteria, Case Study, District 22 of Tehran City

The present study was conducted with the aim of analytical evaluation of green urban development trends in District 22 of Tehran during a five-year period from 2011-2016.              The research method was descriptive and analytical. Research data were collected in two time periods (2011 &2016)        from official documents and databases of governmental and non-governmental organizations, especially environmental deputies and Tehran Municipality. In order to determine the extent of the effect of each of the criteria for evaluating the green city and scoring their performance in this 5-year period, experts used two separate questionnaires. Data analysis was performed using Expert Choice software and performance evaluation matrix and Excel spreadsheet. The innovation of the research is the use of various and valid criteria in relation to the green city in order to "evaluate" the performance of green urban development during a five-year period in the 22nd district of Tehran. The results of the study showed that in the study period, out of 39 criteria, 18 criteria had a good performance during this period, including: water sustainability policy, daily average SO2 and per capita green space, and 21 other criteria had ineffective or undesirable performance. The final result of the evaluation of the performance of the green city showed that the development of the green city in this region is in a moderate position due to its significant environmental potentials and is relatively far from the ideal point.