Evaluation of Ardebil Iranian-Islamic City Resilience and its Five Regions Ranking by Using KOPRAS Model

Today, urban resilience is one of the most important new issues in urban management and planning. Islamic cities are no exception to this rule according to the principles of Islam and Islamic jurisprudence, and their resilience in human dimensions, especially for the sake of familiarity with religious teachings, should have a special appearance. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to assess the resilience of the Iranian-Islamic city of Ardabil and the ranking of its urban areas.

The present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in nature. The statistical population of the study consisted of experts working in the five municipalities of Ardabil, which was selected by snowball sampling method and 50 of them were purposefully selected and the research questionnaire was completed and to analyze the data from software ArcGIS, SPSS, Excel and KOPRAS multivariate decision making software are used.

The resilience rate of Ardabil city is 4.66, which shows the average. Also, the ranking of the five regions of Ardabil city based on the Coopras model has been regions two, three, one, five and four, respectively. In terms of leveling in the cluster analysis method, region two was at the level of moderate productivity and the rest of the regions were at the level of low productivity. Finally, Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there is an inverse relationship between the spiritual dimension and other dimensions of resilience.

The result is that physically, newly constructed and planned areas are more resilient, while in the human and spiritual dimensions, old areas and worn-out areas are inhabited by indigenous peoples who believe in religious teachings., are more resilient.