As time goes on and cities expand, various issues, such as traffic problems, noise and air pollution, urban sprawling, land use incompatibility, and so on, are plaguing urban managers. Sustainable development is one of the methods that tries to improve the current problems of cities by relying on minimal use of resources. One component of this model is smart growth, which claims to be consistent with the principles of sustainability. This paper attempts to explore the relationship between these indicators by examining the main parameters of smart growth and its adaptation to the components of spatial arrangement theory in three urban contexts in Bojnourd. In this regard, three main components of smart growth (pedestrian capability, user mixing and public transport) in these contexts have been investigated using TOPSIS and ANP methods. UCL Depthmap software has also been used to analyze space syntax indices.
This research was a developmental one and observational methods, questionnaires and libraries were used for data collection. The results indicate that walk-ability and mixed land use indices in the three investigated contexts were affected by the connectivity and integration of passages. However, in the study of public transport accessibility index, the impact of these indices has not been seen.

Competitiveness and branding are relatively new research approaches in the urban and regional planning literature. The purpose of this research is to identify the competitiveness and branding Capabilities of Songhor city as a destination with competitive capabilities. This is analytical-applied research. In the first stage, by distributing a questionnaire among the citizens of Songhor with a sample size of 382 people, the competitive capacities of this destination were examined. The reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed with Cronbach's alpha coefficient above 0.7 for the entire questionnaire and for all indicators. Then, using "confirmatory factor analysis" and "amos" software, it was determined that the "economic dimension" has the highest correlation with the competitiveness index of Songhor city. Also, at the level of indicators, "culture and identity", "agriculture", "transportation" and "ecotourism and natural attractions" have had the highest correlation with the dimensions of "social culture", "economic", "environmental physical" and "infrastructure" respectively. In the next step, after presenting the results to the expert community, 7 options were determined for the city, which was categorized in three dimensions: "cultural", "economic" and "tourism". Then these options were categorized again in the form of a paired comparison questionnaire for prioritizing the options using the "ANP" method and distributed among 20 experts. The results of this stage showed that the "economic" criterion is considered the most important one for Songhor city branding. Also, the option of "Sunflowers City" is considered the "main brand" of this city with regard to its "economic" dimension.