Urban Agriculture as a Tool for City and Landscape Planning in Iran with Emphasize On the Role of Persian Garden

This Ph.D. project as a landscape research practice focuses on the less widely studied aspects of urban agriculture landscape and its application in recreation and leisure, as well as landscape beautification. I research on the edible landscape planning and design, its criteria, possibilities, and traditional roots for the particular situation of Iranian cities and landscapes. The primary objective is preparing a conceptual and practical framework for Iranian professions to integrate the food landscaping into the new greenery and open spaces developments. Furthermore, finding the possibilities of synthesis the traditional utilitarian gardening with the contemporary pioneer viewpoints of agricultural landscapes is the other significant proposed achievement. Finished tasks and list of achieved results: • Recognition the software and hardware principles of designing the agricultural landscape based on the Persian gardens • Multidimensional identity of agricultural landscape in Persian gardens • Principles of architectural integration and the characteristics of the integrative landscape in Persian gardens • Distinctive characteristics of agricultural landscape in Persian garden • Introducing the Persian and historical gardens as the starting point for reentering the agricultural phenomena into the Iranian cities and landscape • Assessment the structure of Persian gardens based on the new achievements and criteria of designing the urban agriculture • Investigate the role of Persian gardens in envisioning the urban agriculture in Iranian cities’ landscape