Identifying and prioritizing the post-corona consequences of COVID-19 in Iranian cities

Abstract In the current era, which is the world of increasing interactions and the growth of rapprochement with other societies, the influence of societies on each other has increased dramatically. This issue has well been illustrated by the COVID-19 epidemic, a disease that has spread through the world in the shortest possible period of time and it is still transmitting. One of the countries having been affected by this epidemic is Iran, whose urban communities are severely affected. The aim of this current research is to identify the consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic in the post-corona era in cities in Iran. To achieve this goal, a combination of both quantitative and qualitative methods, the thematic analysis methods, Fuzzy Delphi, ISM, and Micmac analysis have been used. The findings of research on the consequences of this epidemic in the post-corona era in metropolitan areas in Iran have been classified as 6 pervasive concepts, 20 theme organizers, and 91 basic themes, which have been extracted from the interview. twenty organizer themes were evaluated by fuzzy Delphi and the results are included in the article. Meanwhile, the ISM Method evaluated 6 Pervasive themes (Social-cultural, Educational, Economical, Health and sanitary, Political administrative, Technological). Based on that, two political and socio-cultural themes were placed in the third layer, and the economic theme was in the second layer, and finally, the educational and health- sanitary themes were in the first layer.