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Journal of Urban Culture Research

Publication Date

2020-07-01

Abstract

Recently competitiveness has become one of the most used concepts in the urban and regional planning literature. This research aims to show the competi-tive situation of the eight metropolises in Iran based on the quality of life indices. The analytical, descriptive method used in this research to show the facts that are involved in different metropolises. Applying framework, required information gathered from world cities information center (NUMBEO https://www.numbeo.com/). ELECTRE III (ELimination Et Choix Traduisant la REalite, in French) is an ef-fective Multi Criteria Decision Analysis method. The results indicate that impor-tant effective factors in population selection of living in the metropolis are com-muting time or traffic, the ratio of income to property price and health. Hence, metropolis ranking demonstrates that in terms of quality of life Shiraz placed on the first level and Ahwaz at the last level. Isfahan, Qom, Tabriz, Mashhad, Tehran, and Karaj respectively ranked from second to seventh. Tehran as the capital city with the highest population concentration does not have enough competitive power against other metropolises and for entering into the international system require deliberate attention to the effective factors of quality of life. In addition, the results show the application of the framework in measuring metropolis com-petitiveness based on the quality of life is very important and competitive can promote sustainability, adaptability, and quality of planning.

DOI

10.58837/CHULA.JUCR.21.1.7

First Page

90

Last Page

111

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