(Ebook) Livable City One Step Towards Sustainable Development by * Dr. Farzaneh Sasanpour 1 1 Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran E mail: [email protected]

(Ebook) Livable City One Step Towards Sustainable Development by * Dr. Farzaneh Sasanpour 1 1 Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran E mail: [email protected]

Cities are the engines of economic growth. According to the United Nations, Todaythe global urban population is expected to reach 3 billion to 5 billion (61 percent) by2030.The industrial revolution and the resulting economic-social changes led to thetransformation of residential patterns and living patterns. Due to the increasingdevelopment of cities and its problems, the theory of sustainable developmentfollowed by the approach of the livable city was considered. Livable city environmentwith good planning is an attractive and safe environment for life, work anddevelopment, including good governance, competitive economy, high quality of lifeand environmental sustainability. The results indicate that the social, economic andenvironmental aspects of livability of the city of Arak are moderate and unfavorable.Also, the results of the Topsis model, which is a multi-criteria and decision-makingmodel, show that in the environmental dimension of the region two with a score of0.6859 and in the social dimension of the region of three with a score of 0.92 and inthe economic dimension of the region three with a score of 1, the highest rank Havewon. As a result, the city of Arak ranked 58th, is not livable and of the three city areas,zone 3 is closer to the surface of livable. And this process will not be in the path ofsustainable development.JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2017) 1(3), 13-17.https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2018.3673www.ijcua.comCopyright © 2017 Journal Of Contemporary Urban Affairs. All rights reserved