ارزيابي توسعه پايدار شهرهاي استان آذربايجان غربي

Sustainable development evaluation of West Azerbaijan Cities

The aim of this study was to plan for sustainable development in western Azarbaijan cities through considering fifty indices (population, social, economic, cultural, health, infrastructure, transportation, and skeletal). Research method is descriptive-analytic. Qualitative planning models such as Topsis multi- criteria decision making model, Atrophy coefficient, and dispersion coefficient were used for ranking cities. Study showed that despite low level of development in some respects, Uromih with having 33/8 percent of population of the province has very high level of development. Mahabad, Khoy and Bukan cities have high rank of development. Miandoab, Nagadeh, Salmas, Piranshahr, Siah Cheshmeh and Sardasht which comprise 21/9 percent of the province population have developed to average level. Correlation coefficient between development of mixed indices and amount of population was 0.974 at significant level of 99%. The result indicates development of big cities and underdevelopment of small cities. Therefore spatial pattern of development in the province is core- peripheral; this is as we move toward big cities in terms of population, administrative and economic factors, rate of development increases.