A Study on the Twenty-year Evolution of Green Cover in Deh-e Punak Neighborhood (2000-2020)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Ph.D. Candidate in Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran.

2 Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran (Corresponding Author).

3 Professor of Architecture, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran.

10.22034/aaud.2022.282879.2468

Abstract

The increasing development of the cities and the rise in their built spaces have led to some threats to the urban green cover; The green cover has cultural, historical, and social identities. In fact, urban green covers are one of the most important leisure and tourism platforms in the cities which have been neglected in the development of contemporary cities. Urban green cover is correlated with numerous components such as socio-demographic discussions, urban laws, ecological discussions, etc., and also affects some. In the present study, the Deh-e Punak neighborhood is investigated as a case study from 2000 to 2020. It is a comprehensive case that includes all evolutionary processes of the urban green cover, because it is historically, religiously, and naturally valuable and at the same time, has experienced different types of land-use change processes from micro- to macro-scales. It is a documentary study conducted through an investigation of the case study. In the present study, through comprehensive qualitative and software investigations, the green cover structures in the Deh-e Punak neighborhood are analyzed. Moreover, in addition to the factors affecting the Deh-e Punak’s green cover, their importance and necessity, their historical-religious identity, laws, and regulations affecting the green cover, and the socio-ecological effects of green cover are studied and some solutions are provided to improve the Deh-e Punak’s green cover considering all these components. The results indicate that Deh-e Punak ’s green cover directly affects the quality of life, and urban tourism is the most important factor that plays a role in the improvement and evolution of the urban green cover of the Deh-e Punak.

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