Ranking of Tehran's neighborhoods with an emphasis on the realization of the creative city using the Topsis model and network analysis.

Moving towards creating and realizing a creative city is very necessary and important; because cities are the places in which knowledge societies are formed, and they are very important in economic development. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to present and model of a creative city in Tehran metropolis. Considering the factors under study, it is an applied research; and its method of review is descriptive-analytic. The statistical population includes Tehran’s 22 municipal districts. Using secondary data, receiving questionnaire from Tehran citizens, creative city indicators in Tehran’s 22 municipal districts have been ranked and graded based on 19 factors of creative city index. according to the results of the TOPSIS model, assessed based on three classifications including privileged, semi-privileged (moderate), and under-privileged (poor). The results show that districts 2, 4, 5, 6, and 22 with an average coefficient of 5 were the first in terms of possessing the factors leading to realization of the creative city. Districts 1, 14,15,8,3,12,11,10,20, and 21 with an average coefficient of 0.404 were the next, namely semi-privileged (moderate). Districts 7, 18, 16,13,19,17 and 9 with an average coefficient of 0.223 came last. the results of network analysis model, the innovation criterion has the greatest impact (0.265) on moving a neighborhood towards a creative one in Tehran. Two indicators namely “the number of centers for science and technology” and “the number of inventions” played the most active role in the realization of the creative city of Tehran with 0.035 and 0.032 respectively.