Implications of sustainable development and assess the community sustainable development, Case Study: Ekbatan neighborhood in region 5 of Tehran city

Development, a concept that is called often to process of moving from point to another that covers various aspects such as economic growth, structural change, industrialization, self-actualization and cultural, religious, national and individual self-reliance. A sustainable development is a new concept of economic growth. A growth that is as justice and opportunity for all people that living in the world; and not for a few selected individuals. Sustainability, in its vast sense, applied to the ability of ecosystems or any current system to continue function has been an indefinite future. Today unveiling poor results of government-oriented solutions of urban development plans, government consideration focused due to lower levels of urban and management and to the tangible dimension of urban life. Two important factors to achieve the appropriate development in local scale are; attention to role and importance of local governance and another is citizen’s participation in the decision-making. Therefore local communities in the cities are best center and workshop of management and participatory planning and there have the greatest social and spatial cohesion between other groups in spatial organization of the city. This research seeks to answer to this question: How the stability condition of the case study neighborhood? The aim of this research was to measurement of the stability of the Ekbatan neighborhood. In this study according to the research topic, the research method was been descriptive-analytic. Data and information collection method was documentary and survival. In the analytical part, discussed to review and test hypotheses, and examine relationships between independent and dependent variables in SPSS software. To test this hypothesis, was used the non-parametric binomial test. Statistical analysis has shown that, Ekbatan neighborhood in terms of community sustainability, according to sustainable development indicators, had high neighborhood stability and resulting Ekbatan neighborhood is considered as a sustainable neighborhood. The Ekbatan neighborhood in terms of sustainability, in the socio-cultural, environmental and physical indicators respectively with mean equal to 3/6977, 3/5166 and 3/4385 are stable and in the economic dimension, with mean 2/8241 are unsustainable. But in terms of overall sustainability the Ekbatan neighborhood with the 3/5286 average, was above from the average of Likert scale that is 3; and according to the overall sustainability significant level smaller than the 0/05, while reject the H0 hypothesis, the research hypothesis was confirmed and have been identified as a sustainable neighborhood that has a high stability.