The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to achieve a more inclusive, resilient, safe and sustainable society. Policy makers, together with entrepreneurs and citizens, are called to a great challenge to optimize land use. This work, through a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), aims at comparing the sustainability of 103 Italian cities through the evaluation of 45 SDGs’ indicators, ranking cities on the base of their performance. Results show strong disparities across Italy with three northern cities at the top of the ranking and many southern cities at the bottom. The analysis then creates a framework based on experts’ view composed of 21 criteria that would facilitate the development of a sustainability plan. A hybrid methodology based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the 10-point scale is used to rank among the criteria. Selected experts underlined how sustainable policy and green investment are enabling factors of sustainable cities, but political stability and streamlined public spending are also essential to achieve this goal. The analysis offers insights for different categories of stakeholders and invites to measure and monitor the progress of cities towards SDGs proposing eight directions (policy, economy, operations, environment, organization, staff, society and human).

可持续发展目标 (SDG) 旨在实现一个更具包容性、复原力、安全和可持续发展的社会。政策制定者以及企业家和公民被要求面临优化土地利用的巨大挑战。这项工作通过多标准决策分析（MCDA），旨在比较通过评估 45 个可持续发展目标的指标来评估 103 个意大利城市的可持续性，并根据其表现对城市进行排名。结果显示，意大利各地的差距很大，三个北部城市排名靠前，许多南部城市排名垫底。然后，该分析根据专家的观点创建了一个框架，该框架由 21 项标准组成，有助于制定可持续发展计划。使用基于层次分析法 (AHP) 和 10 分制的混合方法对标准进行排名。选定的专家强调了可持续政策和绿色投资如何成为可持续城市的有利因素，但政治稳定和精简公共支出对于实现这一目标也至关重要。