Comparative evaluation of neighborhoods in terms of urban prosperity index ( Case study: District 6 neighborhoods of Tehran metropolitan )

Today, urban prosperity is known as one of the most effective solutions to economic growth, the dominant of social relations, environmental sustainability and better quality of life in cities and neighbourhoods. The debate on the concept of urban prosperity was first formed in the 1930s. The United Nations Human Settlements Organization in 2012, provided comprehensive indicators on urban prosperity. The aim of this research is a cooperative evaluation of the urban neighborhoods in district 6 of Tehran based on urban prosperity indicators. Applying urban prosperity in neighborhood planning is a new policy in sustainable urban development. This research based on the method, is descriptive-analytical and in terms of aim is applied. The data collection method was documentary-library. The WASPAS model was used to rank the neighborhoods and the entropy model was used to weight the indicators. The results of applying the WASPAS decision making model show that there is a difference between the 14 neighborhoods of region 6 than the urban prosperity indexes. The ranking of neighborhoods in terms of urban prosperity indicated that the three neighborhoods of Yousefabad, Keshavarz and Valiasr had the favorable status with final score of 0.337, 0.334 and 0.259, respectively, six neighborhoods with average status and five neighborhoods (Nizami Ganjavi, Jihad, Behjat Abad, Fatemi and Jamalzadeh) are in undesirable condition and are at the superiority of urban development planning. The results also showed that the urban prosperity environmental dimension had the most neighborhoods (11 neighborhoods) with undesirable conditions.