Quality of Life and Urban Sustainable Development Case Study: Tehran’s 3rd District

In recent half-century, procedure of urbanity has been developed in Iran increasingly, as urban population of Iran in 2011 exceeded two-third of total population of the country. This growing population procedure and of course this physical growth of Tehran caused different areas of the capital face serious challenges for delivering desirable urban services (including welfare, leisure, security, safety and cultural services) to all categories and groups of people in frame of purposes of  continuous development. Therefore, in this study district 3 of Tehran was investigated according to indexes of quality of life having emphasized on the approach of city prosperity. In this investigation, documentary method was used together with note taking method (electronic note taking) to perform exploratory studies and preparation of theoretical foundations of the research. In executive process of the research, statistical data from different organizations such as Statistical Center of Iran and Tehran Municipality was collected, categorized and analyzed and finally SWOT strategic planning technique was used to detect strengths and weakness points of district 3 and also threatening factors of that district. According to analyses, it was detected that in spite of strength points such as high rate of per capita green space, appropriate educational space, quality and ease of access to public spaces and communication lines for residents, the district faces serious challenges such as high rate of crimes and various environmental and noise pollution due to presence of trans-regional usages.