The assessment of urban sustainability with regard to optimum urban governance using Ecological Footprint technique

The investigation of current urban environmental conditions indicates an extraordinary destruction unsustainability status. The consequences of this unsustainable development invite many urban policy makers equipped with assessments techniques regarding urban environmental- ecological impacts.The major objective of this paper is to apply ecological footprint technique for measuring urban- environmental impacts and mutual human environment relations.This study suggests that London's EF and Santiago's is 5.3 and 2.6 ha respectively as opposed to world's figure (2.3). However, Tehran's EF is amounted to be 3.7 ha. This means that all of these metropolitans are in the state of unsustainability and dictate un proper urban management and governance.