The study success rate in achieving Innovative and creative cities (case study: the city of Paradise)

Creativity is a highly important factor for innovation and economic success and creative cities which are considered as important sites for the generation of new ideas, products and processes. So, this study has been done on Ferdows city in South Khorasan Province to determine the position of the city and the difference between regions and localities of this city in terms of creativity. The research method is descriptive and analytical and data requirements were compiled using questionnaires and collected data were analyzed using single-sample t-tests in spss software, sxpert choice, excel analysis, and AHP model for weighting and TOPSIS method for ranking of neighborhoods operation. The results showed that in Ferdows city, the overall situation of creative city indexes is not optimal. However, criteria of social capital, creative human capital, and communication technologies have had more favorable conditions than other criteria. In addition, different neighborhoods have different items and in total, Farhangian neighborhood earned the most points that could be considered as a model for other communities.