An Analysis of Effective Indicators on the Realization of a Creative City: A Case Study on Shiraz

As the global population continues to dominate the world, increasing trends and UN projections, city planners, innovators and urban researchers are working on new initiatives and positive innovations to create creative, well-performing, prosperous cities that are sustainable and livable. Due to the importance of this issue in the present study, the position of the most important axes related to the development of the creative city in Shiraz have been studied and ranked. The present research is applied-developmental in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical and survey in terms of method. The data has been collected through library studies as well as field studies and AHP method and Waspas model have been used for data analysis. The statistical population of the study included experts and specialists in the field of urban planning, officials and trustees of relevant organizations and departments in the city of Shiraz, selected using the census. The results show that in the socio-cultural criterion, the area from Hafezieh to Saadieh, in the economic criterion, Shahcheragh Complex, and in the physical-ecological and organizational-managerial criteria, the area from Afifabad Garden to Eram Garden were in the first place. Finally, some suggestions have been presented by temporal and spatial priority for developing practical and economically justifiable plans for the creative city in Shiraz, training economic experts in the field of creative city, and defining the employment-oriented dimensions and policies with a creative approach in Shiraz .