Measuring the level of accessibility of urban areas of Ahwaz with the indicators of the creative city

Cities and creative regions are driving the country's economy. Creative cities are respected as the center of innovation, creativity, and transformation of ideas into wealth. Moving towards the creation and realization of a creative city is very important for reasons of the location of the city as a place of formation of knowledge-based communities, the importance and focus of cities in economic and social development is essential. This research is aimed at ranking the cities of Ahwaz in terms of having indicators of the creative city. The survey method is based on a descriptive-analytical approach. To collect data, experts' opinions were used using the questionnaire as well as the statistics of Ahvaz city. To measure the variables of the creative city, the decision making WASPAS model and weighting to indicators were used by the Shannon entropy method. In this research, urban areas of Ahwaz are ranked according to 14 indicators of the city's creative indicators. The results indicate that the level of accessibility of Ahwaz urban areas varies in terms of indicators of the city and there is a great gap between the regions. The best position in terms of indicators of a creative city based on the WASPAS model is the one with a weight of 0.416, which is a higher-than-high-level one in the area of ​​the first one, the criteria for which is high. In contrast, the lowest level of coverage is about 0.224. Therefore, the autogenous regions of Ahvaz do not have the same status in terms of having creative city indicators.