Investigating the effects sustainable Urban Development on Urban Sovereignty

Urban Sovereignty  deals with the creation and maintenance of urban infrastructure and services, and is a purely political process through citizens and various groups that express their interests, moderate their differences, reach agreement, and act with their legal rights and obligations. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of sustainable urban development on urban governance.The method of the present research is applied and field survey The statistical population of this study includes all experts in the municipality affairs or employees of the administrative department of the municipality in Kashmar in 2020 whose number is 102 people. The sampling method in this study is simple random and the number of samples was determined 81 people, using Morgan table.  For data analysis, EXCEL, PLS Smart and SPSS software were used and the model fit indices were acceptable. All values ​​of combined reliability and Cronbach's alpha coefficient were above 0.7. Diagnostic validity was also confirmed using Fornell and Larker indices  The results of the hypothesis test showed that economic development does not have a positive effect on Sovereignty , but social development(0.382)  and environmental maintenance (0.414).have a positive and significant effect on urban governance . Municipalities and city councils can better fulfill urban governance through the framework of sustainable urban development.