As developing a city, its officials and planners consider outside growth as developmental objectives; therefore, there will be remained less opportunities to deal with using capacities to develop in-urban spaces. If we look more closely at situation in different neighborhoods, we can see that the neighborhoods have changed because of rapid and without studying development cities. There are many internal potentials and capacities for development in metropolis of Mashhad. Urban uncultivated and unused lands, industrial zones and marginal and without plan and control upper neighborhoods are some of the potentials. Despite the recent physical development, district 8 of Mashhad Municipality is one of the urban areas that suffer from relative poverty due to lack of proper planning in many sustainability criteria. Looking to the district with smart growth approach and feasibility of development capacities can lead neighborhoods of the area to achieve a sustainable neighborhood. It is expected that the article provide fields to take necessary actions to implement principles of smart growth and sustainability indicators in the studied area (District 8) by submitting proposals, in addition to explain principles and objectives of smart growth. In the article, there has been used descriptive-analytical method with deductive nature. There has been firstly conducted determining the current status of each neighborhoods in region 1 of district 8, based on the research indicators; then the current status of the region was analyzed using different methods and models and finally, the neighborhoods were ranked using TOPSIS model.

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