critical indicators for sustainable management of urban parks case study: karaj urban parks

determination and analysis of critical indicator’s standard for urban parks case study: karaj urban parks

growing urban population may cause severe resource as well as social impacts. so, managers at urban parks are often faced with the fundamental question of what level of visitor use can be accommodated in a park or recreation area so that natural and cultural resources and the quality of the visitor experience do not deteriorate to unacceptable levels. within the outdoor recreation ?eld, this is...

Evaluating Sustainable Appropriation of Urban Public Parks

1 INTRODUCTION Urban public parks offer a great potential to raise the quality of life for urban citizens, while at the same time their creation and maintenance requires substantious amounts of money. Surveys have shown that citizens consider parks to be an important element for their well-being, even if used only occasionally. By offering opportunities for equal participation irrespective of g...

Benefits of Urban Parks

Defining the Sustainable Park: A Fifth Model for Urban Parks

Galf n Cranz has a Masters and PhD in sociolog)' from University" of Chicago, where she specialized in the "social use of space." Since then she has taught architecture from a social and cultural point of view at Princeton University and the University' of California at Berkeley. The author of The Politics ofPniii Design (1982), she hecame interested in the problems of sustainable development i...

feasibility of participatory management in urban parks of karaj

local community participation in development programs has a long history and wide range of development agencies have tried to involve people in development plans should. in this context, the main purpose of this study was to assess feasibility of participatory management of urban parks, in city of karaj. the study applied a descriptive-survey method of research. the statistical population inclu...

Preference study for Urban Parks Activities using Multiple Method Group: A Case of Gorgan City

Current literatures on urban parks and green spaces showed that people’s preference for visiting urban parks in various group users is different. People visit parks for various motives and activities, leading to several patterns of park usability. However, the patterns in urban park use in majority of Iran cities are not yet known. This study presented the preference for activity in urban...