Localization of urban planning process with knowledge-based urban planning approach Case study: Urmia city

During the last few decades, the concept of knowledge-based city has been proposed as one of the most important concepts in the field of urban planning. The present research, with a practical and developmental purpose and using descriptive-analytical method, tries to present a policy through evaluating the localization capability of urban planning indicators in Urmia city and determining the level of desirability of knowledge-based city indicators. coherent strategies to realize the dimensions of sustainable development and achieve a knowledge-based city. In order to analyze the research data, one-sample t-test was used in SPSS software to measure the localization capability of urban planning dimensions in Urmia city, and in order to check the correlation and factor load of each of the program indicators. Urban planning has benefited from confirmatory factor analysis by PLS Smart software. Also, by using the Swara technique, it has been evaluated and analyzed the level of desirability and preference of the indicators of the knowledge-based city. The results of the research indicate that each of the economic, social, physical, environmental and management aspects of urban planning can be localized in Urmia city. Also, in some aspects, the situation of Urmia is inconsistent in terms of the degree of realization of knowledge-based city policies, and in order to improve the current situation and the realization of the desired goals, proposals have been made in different dimensions.