Codification of Sustainable Development Indicators in New Town of Iran: A Practical Municipal Level Approach مقالة

One of the main reasons of unsustainability of city development in Iran is that planners and mayors have not almost been able to create connections between different dimensions of a city. Sustainability indicators are evaluation tools of cities operation applicable in living environmental, economical, and social aspects. The purpose of this paper is to offer a framework including the description of wide specter of indicators, with regard to the operation of environmental sustainability indicators. In order to have a common framework for sustainable indicators of Iranian new town, we create a charter in America and Australia. Therefore, we will study some samples of sustainable cities according to the documents and library related studies and comparative method of study. The result of this paper is as follows: The introduction of sustainability indicators for codification of sustainability indicators of Iranian new town.

These concepts are introduced as dimensions of environmental sustainability in this paper: land use, City transportation network, Ecology, Energy and Recycling and Green architecture. In Mawson Lakes, sustainability was studied from environmental dimension and the energy aspect and recycling materials and green architecture, was taken into attention in that dimension; Therefore, most of the indicators are in the fields of energy and recycling materials (Rob Ball, 2008). In Boulder, Colorado, environmental planning has been adopted in relation to the land use, energy and recycling, ecology and green architecture. In Portland, Oregon, the main purposes of sustainability plans are in the fields of land use, energy and recycling and green architecture. If cities are analyzed according to sustainability aspects of our environment, sustainability indicators in relation to land use, transportation, ecology, energy, and recycling and green architecture, according to tables 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 as they please consider below: Table 1: Land use sustainability indicators Source: Authors Row City Sustainability indicators of land efficiency 1 Mawson Lakes 2 • Offering documents based on the way of structure in stages of selling the land. 12 Metro-dade 13 phoenix 14 Portland Table 3: Ecological Sustainability Indicators Source: Authors Row City Ecological Sustainability Indicators 1 Mawson Lakes 2 Teviot Downs • Recognition of the animal fossils and protection of native plants of the region for creating half-rural and cultivating spaces. Based on the present study it can also be concluded that energy and recycling and green architecture are the most principle fields in making the environmental sustainability indicators the most important issues among the cities under study.