Regarding the necessity of integral regional developmental policies, analyzing development levels in addition to ranking them based on standardized indices, is regarded as the core of any urban planning. Balanced spatial distribution of facilities not only means to dedicating equal cultural spaces but it conceptualizes, in an extended view, the full ability of using unseen potentials in deprived areas. Therefore, it is a significant subject to include deprive diminishing plans for decreasing social inequalities in order to limit their diverse economic and political consequences. In fact, getting a precise insight of different regions due to their different characteristics is considered as the base of a designing a true methodology to gain sustainable development. Application of quantitative criteria for ranking purposes in residential areas results in identifying more suitable locations to live in one hand and is also considered as criteria for construction of plans for decreasing inequalities on the other hand. This papers tries to rank cities located at Kerman province Iran using PROMETHEE methodology as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approach. Results showed that Kerman and Faharoj are ranked as the first and the last developed cities respectively. Factor analysis results (variance coefficient= 0.55) clarified that the difference seen in accessibility levels to facilities is backed to accessibility levels to tools on which stand some developmental signs.

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