Identifying the components of smart sustainable development in the field of urban management

Smart sustainable development is considered as a solution to urban development problems that aims to plan to achieve sustainable urban development. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify the components and indicators of smart sustainable development in the field of urban management. This research is based on the paradigm of interpretiveism and with inductive approach. The present study is exploratory in nature and in terms of purpose, it is a developmental research that has been done in a mixed way. The method of data collection in this research was through library studies as well as field method. The interviewees were 30 people including academic experts in the fields of management and entrepreneurship, organizational experts and senior managers in the field of urban management in Gorgan Municipality, who were selected by purposive sampling and snowball method. The findings of this study showed four dimensions in the form of 12 components and 46 indicators. The dimension of intelligent economy has four components of "entrepreneurial economy", "competitive economy", "productive economy" and "efficient economy", the dimension of intelligent society has two components of "prudent society" and "smart society", the dimension of intelligent environment has four components of "sustainability", "Efficiency", "green cities" and "efficient infrastructure", and the dimension of intelligent management are also two components of "democracy" and "creative and innovative". Therefore, based on the results obtained from the research findings, it is suggested that measures based on knowledge and communication and information innovations be made to achieve sustainable smart urban development.