en Urban Planning Urban Planning Research Paper Research Paper <p>Preset paper aims to recognize the most important factors in creating a smart city in the city of Ahvaz. For achieving this, all criteria, which play an important role in creating smart cities, were collected using different resources based on descriptive-analytical method. At the next stage, a survey of a number of 40 urban planning experts was accomplished in Ahvaz city, which is the case study of the research, to rank smart city criteria and sub-criteria in terms of importance using Fuzzy TOPSIS technique. The results showed that among six criteria, &ldquo;smart government&rdquo; with the score of 4 percent was ranked as the most important criterion and &ldquo;smart environment&rdquo; with the score of around 1.5 percent was recognized as the least important criterion in the regard of creating a smart city. Moreover, of the sub-criteria, &ldquo;Stable economy and ability to transform&rdquo;, &ldquo;Social and ethnic plurality&rdquo;, &ldquo;Crisis management and ability to organize human resources&rdquo;, &ldquo;local and regional accessibility&rdquo;, &ldquo;Sustainable resource management&rdquo;, and &ldquo;Individual Safety&rdquo; were recognized as the most important factors in different aspects of making the city smart.</p> Smart city, Fuzzy TOPSIS, Criteria, Ahvaz. 141 149 http://ijaup.iust.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-11-607-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 M. A. Shokouhi shokouhim@ferdowsi.um.ac.ir 180031947532846001453 180031947532846001453 Yes Professor S. N. Naghibirokni sn.naghibirokni@gmail.com 180031947532846001454 180031947532846001454 No PhD Student H. Alizadeh std.hadi@gmail.com 180031947532846001455 180031947532846001455 No PhD Student A. Ahmadi atefe.ahmadi46@gmail.com 180031947532846001456 180031947532846001456 No PhD Student