The Role of Urban Rural Perspective on Sustainable Development (Case study: Shiraz Soltanabad River)

Urban landscape can work as an effective element in sustainable urban development in intra-city rivers. Soltanabad river of Shiraz, a potential place for people gathering, can improve sustainable urban development standards in designing the Soltsnabad River margin. The present study is based on field and library studies, using a descriptive approach and the existing evidences on sustainable urban development for designing the intra-city river margin in Shiraz. Our specialized questionnaire was answered by 60 municipal engineers and designers in Shiraz municipalities. The SPSS software was used to analyze the data in two analytic and descriptive groups. Cronbach's alpha was used to measure the construct validity; the Cronbach's alpha value for reliability test was 85% (more than 0.7), so the questions were suitable for the research environment. The following hypotheses were investigated: first, sustainable urban development plays a key role in designing the intra-city river margin and urban landscape. The results suggest that the intra-city river margin design standard, having a correlation coefficient of 0.854 and a significance level of 0.000, has a significant relation with sustainable urban development, since it is below 0.05; therefore, river margin design has been effective in sustainable urban development. Second: sustainable urban development standards (social, environmental, physical and cultural) affect the design of intra-city river margins and urban landscape. The results show that the significance level of the variance analysis test is p˂0.000, i.e. these standards affect the intra-city river margin design and sustainable urban landscape; however, there is a significant difference among these standards.