A Survey of Success in Achieving Innovative and Creative Cities (Case Study: Ferdows Town)

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

Rostam  Saberifar ¹ (Associate Professor, Dep. of Geography & Urban Planning, Payame Noor, Tehran, Iran)
Salehe  Neyatmoghadam ² (M.A in Geography & Urban Planning, Payame Noor, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2016-10-20 Accepted : 2018-12-19 Published : 2018-11-22

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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