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productive landscape design restrict urban fabric transformation, yet it will restore urban open spaces
through multifunctional landscape [1].
In order to change urban landscape, Urbanites’ life style and the urban policies need to be reconsidered, that
could be achieved through different interaction with urban green space. For example, residents will begin to
cultivate fruit trees, variety of vegetables and ornamental flowers by working on the fields.
2. Urban productive landscape significance
Landscape is not only a field for human activity but it is a field of visual perception and it associated with all
human senses. Aesthetical, perceptional and emotional characteristic of landscape could be experienced by
all man’s senses [2]. Various plant species, in the adjacent parcels, with different textures, colors, sizes and
fragrances during different seasons, will stimulate human senses and it will create a different experience for
the residence in the urban landscape. Different plant species with diverse rate of productivity causes urban
landscape to continuously change, hence, urbanite’s life quality and their contact with the urban environment
will be affected by these alternations.
Breeding agricultural crops in local scale urban green space is a creative opportunity, in that unique ideas of
design and management are practiced within the city, while, any two productive lands are not adorned
similarly. People central urban productive landscape provides a different method of design and management
which includes various individual reactions, and is not achievable through static comprehensive plan.
The urban productive landscape is able to gather people, revitalize missing sense of society, act as a
source of education, and it provides opportunity for the public participation, which in turn leads to local
economic development. People will be bounded to their environment through agriculture; they will become
sensitive and curious about environmental pollution and consumption of their local resources. Moreover by
educating urbanites with necessary skills, they will be able to manage their own local environment [1].
Urban productive landscape is a conversion of the urban landscape which is significant not only due to its
physical characteristic, but also due to concepts of productivity and memorable experiences. What has been
manifested in urban landscape is a sense of place, which is achieved by means of public involvement.
Productive landscape inspires memorable mental images through Public participation in the process of
breeding crops in different season and various days of the year.
Urban productive landscape distinguishes local differences in each region, which could be seen as distinct
types of planting as a result of different cultural choices. Different plants grow in different climate, therefore
the planting season is important and need to be considered in productive landscape [4].
Another significance of urban productive landscape is moving towards sustainable environment .Due to the
lack of resources, landscape designers are required to reconsider their consumptive perception in order to
design urban green spaces [3].Urban green space could be designed based on productivity rather than
energy consumption. Since it supplies urbanite’s required products within the city or in the suburbs without
the need of transportation, it will provide job opportunities as well [1].
3. Urban Productive landscape planning, a case study of Tehran Southern agricultural lands
Tehran’s nature is vast territory in between Alborz Mountain and central desert; it is limited to Alborz height
in the north. Mountain located in the east and the sought east edge defines its territory in the east. And the
residential cores and the cultivated lands occupied west’s and south west’s lands (Fig.1).
Mountain in North
Fig.1: Tehran natural structure
Agricultural Land in south
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