A Survey of Success in Achieving Innovative and Creative Cities (Case Study: Ferdows Town)
Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies
Rostam Saberifar
1
,
Salehe Neyatmoghadam
2
1 - Associate Professor, Dep. of Geography & Urban Planning, Payame Noor, Tehran, Iran
2 - M.A in Geography & Urban Planning, Payame Noor, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: TOPSIS method, AHP model, Creative City, Ferdows, Urban Creativity,
Abstract :
Creativity is a highly important factor for innovation and economic success and creative cities are considered as important sites for the generation of new ideas, products and processes. So, this study has been done on Ferdows city in South Khorasan Province to determine the position of the city and difference between regions and localities of this city in terms of creativity. The research method is descriptive and analytical and data requirements using questionnaires compiled and with the help of software SPSS and sxpert choice and excel analysis and AHP model for weighting and TOPSIS method for ranking of neighborhoods operation has been carried out. The results showed that, the overall situation of creative city indexes is not optimal However, measures of social capital, creative human capital, and communication technologies have had more favorable conditions than other measures. In addition, different neighborhoods have different items and in total, Farhangian neighborhood earned the most points that could be considered as a model for other communities.
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_||_Aghayefishani, T. (1998). Creativity and Innovation in Humans and Organizations. (2nd Ed.). Tehran: Terme Publishing. (In Persian)
Alvani, M. (1993). Public Administration. (2nd Ed.). Tehran: Ney-2 Publishing House. (In Persian)
Ebrahimi, M. (2008). Creative City Meeting, Tehran Center for Study and Planning. Tehran: Niavaran Cultural Center. (In Persian)
Cengiz, K., Ufuk, C., & Ziya, U. (2003). Multi-criteriasupplier selection using fuzzy AHP. Logistics InformationManagement, 16 (2), 382 - 394.
Costa, P., Miguel, M., Vasconcelos, B., & Sugahara, G. (2007). A discussion on the governance of creative cities: Some insight for policy action. Norwegian Journal of Geography, 61 (12), 22-31.
Deffner, A., & Vlachopoulou, C. (2010). Creative city: A new challenge of strategic urban planning?. Planning and Regional Development, 38 (3), 34-39.
Florida, R. L. (2004). Cities and the creative class. London: Routledge.
Ershadmannish, H. (2010). Creative City Memoir. Journal of Municipalities. 100 (11), 4-11.
Fedko, H. (2014). Ferdos Development Management Company, Trustee of Ferdows Special Economic and Industrial Zone, Birjand: South Khorasan Province.
Ferdows Governorate, FG. (2015). Development of Ferdows County. Ferdows: Ferdows Governorate.
Florida, R. L. (2004). Cities and the creative class. Translated by Ibrahim Ansari and Mohammad Esmail Ansari. Tehran: Sociology Publishers.
Ghazi Noori, S. (2011). Meeting of Innovation and Commercialization Management in Urban Management. Tehran Municipality: Tehran Metropolitan Center for Urban Studies and Planning. (In Persian)
Hall, P. (1998). Cities in Civilization: culture, innovation and urban order. London: Weidenfeld.
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Medeiros N. (2005). Planning for creativity: the case study of Winnipeg’s Exchange District, master degree project. London: FED.
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Mokhtarimalekabadi, M., Saghaei, F. (2014). Classification of fifteen regions in Isfahan City based on the creative city Indicator Using models in regional planning. Journal of Research and Urban Planning, 5 (16), 105-120. (In Persian)
Musterd, S. (2001). The Creative Cultural Knowledge City. Conditions, 12 (2), 843-852. (In Persian)
Pourmohammadi, M. R., Koushneh, R., (2012). Evaluation and Analysis of Urban Public Spaces Using the Topsis Model. Journal of Urban and Regional Studies and Research, 17 (5), 37-52. (In Persian)
Rezaeian Gharoghozloo, A., Ghaderi, I., & Mir Abbasi, R. (2012). Designing a Creative City. Tehran: Azarakhsh. (In Persian)
Saberifar, R., & Akhgari, M., (2015). Historical and Tourist Geography of Ferdows. Hamedan: Noor Alam. (In Persian)
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Saberifar, R. (2014). Urban Planning Workshop. Tehran: Payame Noor University. (In Persian)
Saberifar, R., Shamsi, E., Fissari, S. (2012). Diseases Conflict Resolution in Islamic Countries, Iran Case Study, Ferdows County. Fourth International Congress of Geographers of the Islamic World, 102-122. Zahedan, Iran. (In Persian)
Saeedi, H. (2010). Creative City. Municipalities, 100 (34), 5-11. (In Persian)
Sasaki, M. (2007). The role of culture in urban regeneration, paper presented in Universal Forum of Cultures. Barcelona: RTY.
Scott, Allen J. (2007). Creative Cities: Conceptual Issues and Policy Questions. Journal of Urban Affairs, 21 (1), 1-11.
South Khorasan Governorate, (2014). Investment conditions in Southern Khorasan Province. Birjand: Director of Management and Planning. (In Persian)
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Throsby, D., & Anita Z. (2014). The Economic and Cultural Value of Paintings: Some Empirical Evidence, In David Throsby & Victor A. Ginsburgh. Economics of Art and Culture, 12 (2), 12-21.
UNCTAD. (2010). Creative Industries and Micro & Small Scale Enterprise Development. New York: UN.
Valibeigi, H. (2007). Ranking of Export Target Markets and Their Enterance Barriers: the Case of Food Industry in Iran. Journal of Trade Studies, 41 (41), 11-21. (In Persian)
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Yahaghi, M. J. (1992). Those years. Mashhad: publication of Astan Quds Razavi. (In Persian)
Zangi Abadi, A., Ali Zadeh, J., & Ahmadian, M. (2011). An Analysis of the Development Degree of West Azerbaijan Province. New Attitudes in Human Geography, 24 (1), 69-84. (In Persian)
