Analysis of Urban Creativity Indices in Settlement System of Mazandaran Province

With the advent of globalization age in the form of networks and capital flow,goods and services and by focusing post industry on knowledge and information production, the role of cities is most important and crucial and therefore, in post industry age, unlike the industrial age, that industries are the main drivers of development, the city itself became the bed for development and creation of post industrial age. Here, each city which provides an appropriate situation for producing knowledge, preservidng and promote the traditions, presence of institurions, local and urban identity, creative industries, creative economy and creative people. Certainly, takes more successful steps for comprehensive development. Emerging the idea of "Creative city" from the late of 1980, which was an attemp for reconstruction of the city on the global level, is based on this idea that always it is possible to use the potential that exists in a place or we assume. This research has been performed with the aim of evaluating the condition of the centers of Mazandaran townships based on the indices of creative city. The method of this research is descriptive-analytical method and library method was used for collecting the required information.In this study, while identifying the most important indices of creative city, the province cities were clustered by using Fuzzy Cluster Analysis Model(c-Means alghorithm) and in continue, by using Vikor, the rating of these cities has been made to study the development amount of the cities based on the creativity. The obtained results showed that although placing the cities in different clusters has no significant relation with the distribution and their scattering in the province, but the main focus of the province cities from developmet point of view and the indices of creative city is placed on the central cities of Iran. Also these studies showed that Sari city (centre of the province) and Babol city, inaddition to placing in one cluster(dependency level of 0.932 and 0.835) are placed at the first rank from developmental point of view and Galoogah, Abbasabad and Soork are placed at the last rank.