Landscape Design of Roads and Environmental Ethics

Authors

  • A Shahcheraghi
  • S Gholampour 1. Ph.D. student, Dept. of Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
  • SA. Mansouri
Abstract:

Background: The road to respond to the needs of today's modern world, affected by the advancement of technological tools, seeks to increase speed and increasing safety. This study seeks to improve the landscape quality of roads, explains the effective criteria in road design and the need to pay attention to the category of design ethics and emphasizes them. Conclusion: In order to increase the quality of travel, human life, the survival of plants and animals, should be given more attention. Ethical design guarantees the flow of life on the road. This view of the road strengthens the mental dimensions of the road that is the subject of landscape science. Landscape as an integrated system, emphasizes the need to simultaneously pay attention to the quality of human life on the road, the preservation of plant and animal life. Finally, the ethical view of road landscape science, according to all three categories, passenger mentality, conservation of plant and animal life is effective in improving the quality of roads. Ethical landscape design is not just about eliminating modern technology. Nor does it confirm the dominance of technology over nature; it seeks to strike a balance between human life, plants and animals with its holistic vision. The landscape is revitalizing. It has a sustainable approach. Man is inherently inclined to nature; landscape approach in dealing with the road phenomenon, certainly emphasizing the mentality of travelers, guarantees the survival of natural cycles, respect for the environment and efforts to preserve it.

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Journal title

volume 17  issue 1

pages  7- 14

publication date 2022-05

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