Archaeology and nature: hyblean cultural landscape and territorial ...

Appropriate interaction among urbanites and designed productive landscape, improves the quality in
residential sectors and it encourages, urban landscape’s revival in the district. Productive landscape’s
preservation is a process of quality reproduction, which integrates old and new values. And it protects natural
relations among man and his environment; also it is an attempt to achieve local identity. Additionally, the
productive landscape is capable to provide job opportunities and is a solution to social and economical
challenges.
The overall population of the designated area is 8524 people, where 75% are the employed population and
16% are unemployed, hence 1022 people are active job seekers. Each hectares of productive landscape, is
able to provide required vegetable needs of 200 people [8]. Since 60 hectares is under cultivation, the
required veritable amount, for 1200 people is already provided, despite the fact that this amount is greater
than demand (Fig.11).
Based on the calculations, 246 people could work on the areas under cultivation, although other occupations
such as greenhouse transplanting, nursery maintenance, agricultural education, local recycling
management, sales production management and monitoring livestock, are also available.
Considering the fact that 4.1 people can work on one hectare of land, 2500 m 2 can be cultivated by one
farmer. Farming on an agricultural land with the area of 2500m 2 is profitable and could be regarded as their
main job [8]. In smaller scale; agriculture activity is a part time job which supplies family food necessities.
4. Proposed productive landscape’s land use, in neighbourhood scale
Based on the site’s potentials, proposed land use has been designed (Fig.12). The entire site is a garden
city; the northern part is designed in a local scale, and moving towards the southern edge, urban functions
are implemented. Therefore, parcel size is becoming greater from north to the sought and the land use will
gradually meet local needs to greater urban requirements (Fig.13). The General approach is to design and
plan based on productive landscape which distinguishes the designed site from other urban communities.
1hectares
Fig.11: Excess of product over demand in the site
2
1
3
4
200
People
Fig.12: Proposed function related to the site potentials
1
2
3
4
Residential context
Agricultural land with
Polluted soil
Dynamic agricultural
land
Vacant lands
60 hectares
11200
People
Improve the quality of residential
fabric, and access routes which
are linked to the agricultural
activities within the context
Offering services and recreational
land use
Agricultural land’s reorganization
and design through assigning
functions
Enabling the agricultural lands,
by defining functions such as
flower farm, play ground and
agricultural lands
1142