Investigating the effects of smart growth on the perception of the ecosystem from the perspective of citizens in the formation of behavioral settlements

Abstract Smart growth is one of the most important categories in today's world, which has prompted urban planning to search for new and practical indicators to improve the quality of life. Also, today, planning and managing cities in a way that responds to the complexity of the current needs of the urban society requires planning and design to create smart cities and communities, and the shape of these cities should be based on creating environments with the aim of facilitating work processes along with improving cognitive skills and the ability to learn and innovate. To solve this problem, solutions such as smart city and sustainable city target people and improving the quality of life. On the other hand, the importance of behavioral centers in the city in urban planning and design is a topic that has been presented and expressed by many different experts such as Jacobs, Lynch. The current research method is quantitative and qualitative, and according to the nature of the subject, the governing approach of this research is the analytical descriptive research method, and in terms of the goal, it is in the category of applied research. In order to collect the required data and information, the library method has been used. The findings of the research show that behavioral settlements, as one of the most important elements of city construction, can have a great impact on improving the living and living quality of cities, and of course it should be stated that behavioral patterns are effective on the formation of behavioral settlements. It can be influenced by the elements that make up urban spaces in which smartness has been created, and these patterns will be effective in creating a behavioral environment. By generalizing the proposed concepts and patterns, it is possible to achieve the conceptual model of the relationship between the smartness of the urban space and the behavioral settlement, which is mentioned at the end of the article.