The Feasibility Applying the Principles of New Urbanism in Sustainable Recreation of Inefficient and Problematic Urban Areas by Emphasing on Smart Growth (Case Study: Central Part of Ahvaz City)

Nowadays inefficient and problematic urban tissues are manifested as one of problems of the cities, hence the situation of these tissues should be arranged to achieve efficient and coherent city. In this regard, the present study seeks to recreate sustainable central part of Ahvaz city based on the principles of modernism and smart growth. The needed data of this analytical-descriptive study were collected by two methods of documented-library type (referring to performed plans and researches related to this study topic) and field-survey type (distributing questionnaire, doing interview, observation, etc). Expert Choice as applied software and hierarchical analysis of AHP and SWOT as analysis method were used. Results show that enhancing public green space, organizing, access, housing diversity, architecture diversity and aesthetic are the most important urbanism indices. Furthermore, the results of the hierarchical AHP model showed that three indices of identity, physical quality, organizing access are more important than two other indices from the experts’ viewpoint.