Social justice is one of the basic concepts of urban sustainable development. Explaining social justice
concept, need to be considered primary facilities and possibilities of different city regions. Nowadays,
knowing strength and weakness points of different city regions for present plans and suitable policies is
necessary. Urban sustainable development is an interesting subject for regional planners and policy
makers. Therefore choosing the suitable method for quantitative measurement of it is of utmost
importance. So the purpose of this paper is evaluating urban sustainable development indicators and
criteria. This study has been conducted based on a descriptive-analytical techniques using FAHP1 method.
The area study is vali-e-asr neighborhood, Mashhad, Iran. For evaluating of sustainability criteria in this
neighborhood, 20 persons of experts and urban elites were consulted. Results showed that the main
priority for the sustainable development of this neighborhoods economic indicator and socio-cultural and
environmental indicators respectively, are the next priorities. Also based on the result of sub-criteria
evaluation, families enjoying the urban facilities by 0.88 points, access to public services by 0.71 points,
economic value of lands by 0.72 points and income households by 0.71 points are of expert’s top
priorities for sustainable development of vali-e-asr neighborhood of Mashhad