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Global awareness, future city design and decision making

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Our world has been changing at an exponential rate. As a result of this rapid growth, we will be forced to make changes in not only the way we live in the environment but also in the environment itself such as designing the cities of the future to be in greater harmony with the increasing population and growing complexity. The paper contains both reflections on global awareness and comprehensive criteria and their priorities for choosing the most desirable city.

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  1. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA

    Thomas L. Saaty

  2. Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey

    Mujgan Sagir

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Thomas Saaty, Distinguished University Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Member of National Academy of Engineering; 2011 received the distinguished award Doctoris Honoris Causa in a ceremony at Poland’s oldest and most prestigious Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland; 2008 awarded the Impact Prize by INFORMS for his work on the Analytic Hierarchy Process; 2000, the gold medal from the International Society for Multicriteria Decision Making; 1972 the L.R. Ford prize in mathematics for a comprehensive paper "Thirteen Colorful Variations on Guthrie’s Four Color Conjecture". Previously, professor, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Scientific Analyst at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in Department of State, Washington: nuclear arms reduction negotiations with the Soviets in Geneva. Among many books and papers he has published, relevant to this paper is his coauthored book "Compact City" with G.B. Dantzig translated to Russian and Japanese.

Müjgan Sagir holds Ph. D. degree from Eskisehir Osmangazi University in Operations Research. Her research interest is in multicriteria decision making, mathematical programming and timetabling problems. Professor Sagir is the Coordinator and one of the eleven members of the Scientific Research Committee of Eskisehir Osmangazi University. She was the Associate Dean of the Engineering Faculty (2009–2012) and Vice Chairman in the Industrial Engineering Department (1997–2001). She is the member of the MCDM Society, the Operations Research Society, the International Society of the AHP and of the INFORMS Society. Professor Sagir has been nominated for the Best Young Academician Award of the Turkish Scientific Research Institution in 2006, and in August, 2005 received the Second Best Project award among 68 (with the E.P.Alikalfa-TUNAECS Competition), for a project titled An Analytic Network Process Approach for Analyzing the Relation Between European Union and Turkey “The Future of the European Union”.

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Saaty, T.L., Sagir, M. Global awareness, future city design and decision making. J. Syst. Sci. Syst. Eng. 21, 337–355 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11518-012-5196-z

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