Measuring the Resilience of Gardens in Yazd

Over the past decades, the horizontal growth of cities has led to the integration of rural-garden areas within the parent city. This phenomenon is more serious in the arid areas of Iran because of the limited networks of water supply (Qanat) and the proximity of settlements around this network and has caused the destruction of the gardens of these urban textures that are rural-based. This research seeks to measure the resilience of urban gardens in the arid climate of Iran with a scientific, comprehensive and spatial model and has developed a conceptual model based on the literature of the concepts of resilience, garden and development. Moreover, from the theoretical frameworks, methods and techniques of resilience topics, indicators appropriate to the resilience of gardens are listed and compiled under the Framework of Studies on the Resilience of Gardens. This framework, which has five dimensions, including ecological, social and cultural, economic, physical and institutional, has been used to understand the typology of gardens. Moreover, to calculate the coefficient of the importance of different layers, Super Decision software was used. The results of the primary scoring of Delphi method based on Thomas L. Saaty binary comparison are the input data of the software to determine the weight of layers. The results were analyzed to measure the resilience of gardens using ArcGIS software, for spatial analysis, and SPSS software, to conduct F test on the results. The entire process of identifying the data and finally identifying the resilience and prioritization method of the gardens is presented in a model for measuring the resilience of gardens. The developed model has three important capabilities. In the first place, it has the power to measure the resilience of gardens from all aspects affecting a garden. Secondly, based on this measurement, gardens may be prioritized according to resilience and information may be provided in a spatial manner. This model is implemented on the gardens of Yazd city as a case study, and the resilience of the gardens of Yazd city is determined and prioritized based on it.