Nowadays a wide range of operational and research activities in different fields of urban planning consist of decision making problems. Decision making is the main element in the analysis in regional studies and skills related to the success of the planning process. This paper has been written in the field of urban planning decision making. It provides a survey of the literature on multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) applications to urban planning problems. Articles were classified into four application areas and scopes. This research contributes to the existing literature on the urban planning and MCDM. It provides a unified source of references that could be useful for students, researchers and practitioners. The paper ends with an assessment of the literature presented, aiming to reach some conclusions, as well as indicate future trends in this line of research.
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