Measurement of Ilam Province Cities Development Level by Using of Multi Criteria Decision Models
Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studiesاحمد پوراحمد 1 * , حسین حاتمی نژاد 2 , علیرضا محمدی 3 , الهه پیشگر 4
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Despite the seven decades old of regional policy and planning in Iran, but Ilam province is among the underdeveloped provinces, yet. Part of the problem is rooted in the providence urban underdevelopment. The study employs tried to use the civil and urban services department indicators to measure the development level. The study employs tried the Multi Criteria Decision Models like as VIKOR, TOPSIS, MORRIS and COPELAND to ranking of cities in development level. This study shows that: The new founded cities are less developed in all service indicators. In relative to other cities in the province with respect to its population, in the municipal sector service, Ilam is less developed. Low population cities have better situation in development indicators. The main result of this study is that the city of Ilam, in terms of population and the facilities concentration in the urban network, have the first rank in the province, but in terms of population, with the criteria of public services, Ilam is not a developed city.