TY - JOUR T1 - Analysis of economic capabilities and opportunities affecting the development strategy of Ardabil city TT - تحلیل قابلیت‌ها و فرصت‎های اقتصادی مؤثر بر استراتژی توسعه شهر اردبیل JF - iueam JO - iueam VL - 9 IS - 36 UR - http://iueam.ir/article-1-1762-en.html Y1 - 2021 SP - 127 EP - 140 KW - Investment Opportunities- Economic Development-Strategy- Ardabil City- SWOT N2 - The Urban Development Strategy (CDS) is a short-term and long-term process of urban development and shows the city's executive programs in line with the points of internal and external factors. Urban planning and development is one of the most important factors of urban management and urban development strategy seeks to reduce urban poverty and social economic development to respond to pervasive global change. The purpose of this study was to analyze and identify the potential investment opportunities and opportunities affecting the urban development strategy of Ardabil city using SWOT model to identify strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats and present the most important ones. Ardebil urban development strategies have been used and the main factors affecting urban development have been done through questionnaires and interviews with city officials and managers in forty people (1398) and the results show that Among the opportunities, the index of the branches of the Balkh River tea that passes through the city center and because of its proper position has the highest final coefficient of 0.774, and among the threats, the index of over-entry of vehicles into the urban transport network with a final coefficient of 0.534 is considered as the most important threat. And among the strengths of public transport networks such as buses, minibuses and taxis with a final coefficient of 0.668 are the most important strengths for urban development. Finally, among the weaknesses, the index of congestion sales is the main source of revenue for the municipality as a weakness of city development with a final cefficient of 0.888. After evaluating the factors in the SWOT model, SO development strategy is the maximum or maximum development strategy of Ardebil most appropriate urban development strategy. M3 ER -