Defining and Prioritizing the Effective Urban Planning Indicators on the Citizenship Rights Achieving by Using AHP (Case Study: Islamic Republic of Iran)

Abstract

Formation and institutionalization of sustainable and democratic society requires serious attention to the citizenship rights. Citizenship is a status which is including a set of rights, duties and obligations and emphasis on equality, justice and independence. On the other hand urban has an undeniable role for citizenship rights which will be attained with proper and justice planning. Hence, the primary aim of this study is, Defining and prioritizing the effective urban planning parameters on the citizenship rights. To accomplish the above target, more or less significant concepts such as citizenship, civic rights, urban planning and targets were determined as a theoretical framework by utilizing the analytical method. Then, Islamic Republic of Iran has been studied based on its constitution as a case study. Then the effective urban planning parameters of the citizenship rights were defined and prioritized by using Analytic hierarchy process evaluation method (AHP) and Expert choice software. The results indicate that urban infrastructure and public spaces with a weight of about 70 percent has the highest impact on the citizenship rights.