Özet:

Through this article, all the cities in Turkey have been examined within the frame of economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability via TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution), one of the “Multi Criteria Decision Making” methods. It is foreseen that all the social stakeholders of the city may agree on the new and different public policies with the governance mechanism by exposing the status of the cities according to various dimensions. The sustainability indicators for the implementation phase were developed by studying the indexes of the related literature. To assess the sustainability of all 81 cities, 52 sustainability indicators were used as the sub dimensions of the social, economical and environmental dimensions. As a result of the analysis of the cities via TOPSIS method, sequentially Kocaeli, Istanbul and Ankara took the top three positions according to the Sustainability Index of the Cities. It is evaluated that, the findings achieved from this study, in which the cities in Turkey are analyzed within the frame of sustainability, will especially contribute to drawing advantage from the governance mechanism by the municipality administrations in the formation process of new public policies, in the accommodation of a balance between the benefits and the costs of all stakeholders and thus in the applicability of the decisions those were taken for the sake of sustainable development in the cities.

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