Abstract

A city has different interactions in environmental, social and economic activities. The anthropogenic activities in a city represent the main source of environmental pollution, ecological damage, and non-renewable resources depletion. Many governmental and non-governmental organizations have indicator systems to evaluate sustainability. This research targets to develop a framework for the rating system that counts to sustainability assess developing and developed countries by considering most common indicators that evaluate performances at most cities. This paper illustrates the proposed framework for developing the city sustainability rating system. This framework consists of two steps for developing rating system: Identification of indicator system and weighting indicator system. This paper contains detailed procedures to identify final indicator list: structuring framework level of the hierarchy, refining indicator system, and preliminary indicator list obtained as a last result of these procedures. A questionnaire survey and statistical factor analysis have been performed to obtain final indicator list. The second main step is weighing final indicator list components. This paper illustrates the procedures for weighing the proposed indicator list. The weighting process uses Simo's Procedures to weight components. The weighting process is performed by using Simo's Procedure which is suitable to react with a lot of indicators within the final list. This weighting process consists of three components: grouping indicator list, collecting information and determining the weight of criteria

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