Hamed Moztarzadeh - Islamic Azad University, Shiraz Branch, Department of Architecture, Shiraz, Iran
Seyed Majid Mofidi Shemirani - Assistant Professor, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
Vahideh Hodjati - Islamic Azad University, Shiraz Branch, Department of Architecture, Shiraz, Iran

Community is the main pillar of the urban body; and balance of social life in cities depends on preserving communities. During the twentieth century, the idea of residential-centered community has been offered in many modern theories and has been widely accepted for solving urban various problems such as management, social and human relations, health and welfare issues and aspects of meaning and identity. On the contrary, the concept of sustainable urban development has been considered a scientific issue in all societies in recent decades, when much of the literature on urban development has been allocated to the issue. The main argument of this paper is two issues of sustainability and urban communities, as well as how to link them in a topic. The paper will describe the necessity and importance of creating sustainable communities which have been originated from the consequences of climate change. Then, the concepts of sustainability and community are clarified; and finally the components of creating a sustainable community will be examined.

community, Sustainability, Sustainable communities, Component