برنامه ریزی شهری، روستایی و شهرسازی

A ‘prosperous city’ is one that provides all its citizens, irrespective of race, ethnicity, gender or socio-economic status, with:(Sheikhazami&Razavian, 2013, 37)

1. Quality of Life: provides adequate housing1 and decent basic services (water, sanitation), facilitating equal access to social amenities, public goods and sound environmental conditions.

2. Productivity: fosters economic development, creates conditions to provide decent jobs and equal opportunities for everyone by implementing effective economic policies and reforms using creativity, innovation, research and development, and science and technology.

3. Infrastructure: provides adequate infrastructure such as roads, telecommunications including digital solutions, highways, urban and inter-urban transport systems in order to enhance spatial mobility and connectivity supported by sound financial mechanisms and regulations that increase accessibility to its residents.

Equity: is an inclusive city that reduces poverty and inequality by ensuring the distribution and redistribution of the benefits of development by protecting the rights of the poor, minorities and vulnerable groups, enhancing gender equality, and ensuring civic participation by all in the social, political and cultural spheres.

5. Environmental sustainability: values the protection of the urban environment and natural assets while ensuring growth, and seeking ways to reduce energy demand, minimize pressure on surrounding land and natural resources, prevent or minimize environmental losses by generating creative solutions to enhance the quality of the environment and strike a balance between man and nature.

Source: Ali Sheikh Azami and Mohamadtaghi Razavian,2013, Analysis Moving Towards Sustainable Development of a City with Emphasis on the Quality of Urban Life: The Case of Noor,Environment and Urbanization Asia 4(1) 31–56 

Some features of a prosperous city: (Sheikhazami&Razavian, 2013, 37)

1. Have an economy capable of contributing to local/national growth.

2. Provide employment in order to allow its citizens to earn a decent income and to enjoy a certain standard of living and meet their basic needs.

3. Have the necessary infrastructure and physical assets—in terms of adequate water, sanitation, power supply, roads, telecommunication, including digital technology, etc.—to sustain urban living and productivity.

4. Contribute to poverty reduction by upgrading slums and preventing the formation of new poor neighborhoods.

5. Provide the necessary social services such as high quality and adaptable education, health, recreation, sport facilities, etc., in order to enable their citizens to attain their full potential by developing their intellectual capacity and ability to lead full, productive, healthy, and fulfilling lives.

6. Be socially inclusive by enhancing gender equality, protecting the rights of minorities and vulnerable groups, as well as ensuring civic participation by all in the social, political and cultural spheres.

7. Distribute or redistribute the benefits, opportunities and resources in a fairly equitable manner.

8. Protect the city’s environmental assets and make them accessible to its population, and contribute to the goals of sustainable urbanization

Source: Ali Sheikh Azami and Mohamadtaghi Razavian,2013, Analysis Moving Towards Sustainable Development of a City with Emphasis on the Quality of Urban Life: The Case of Noor,Environment and Urbanization Asia 4(1) 31–56