Islamic Art Studies

Islamic Art Studies

Creating an Urban Place According to the Ecological Approaches of the Landscape (Case study: Persian Gulf Martyrs Lake)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Nima Sayad 1
Hossein Zabihi 2
Zahra Sadat Saeideh Zarabadi 2
1 PhD Candidate in Urban Development, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Urban Development, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
10.22034/ias.2020.250092.1364
Abstract
In recent decades, due to the deterioration of the environmental situation in the world, attention to environmental and ecological issues are considered by theorists, planners and urban designers; in this regard, urban location experts are not exempted from this rule. The current research has been accomplished with the aim of presenting a conceptual model to explain the relationship between the theory of urban place and the ecology of the landscape and then turning this exemplary into a model. In the model presented in this research, by using the ecological approaches of the landscape, the creation of an urban place has been done by determining the location of the components involved in it. The presented model, under the title of ecological place model, has four physical, activity, semantic and ecological components. A number of criteria have been determined for each component, which includes twelve criteria in total. These criteria are: landscape ecology, accessibility, human scale, readability, flexibility, visual beauty, environmental comfort, security and safety, activity, attention to economy, sensory richness and identity. The Persian Gulf Martyrs Lake was selected as a case study and their compliance with the model of the ecological site was investigated using the ANP method. The results of the investigations show that it conforms to the presented model, but due to the importance of changes in the ecological principles of the landscape, it is recommended to modify the ecological trends in order not to reduce the quality of this urban place.

Research objectives:
1. Explaining the pattern in identifying the process of creating an urban place by observing the principles of landscape ecology.
2. Presenting a conceptual model to explain the relationship between the theory of urban place and the ecology of the landscape.

Research questions:
1. How can we present a model for creating an urban place by considering the ecological principles of the landscape?
2. What are the solutions to create interaction between the topics related to the creation of urban place and the ecology of the landscape?
Keywords
Public Space
Urban Place
Landscape Ecology
Ecological Place
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