Providing Empirical Suggestions for Rehabilitation of Deficient Urban Parks Based upon Users' Preferences

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the preferences of urban dwellers for variouselements of urban parks in order to provide some important suggestions for rehabilitation of urban deficient parks. Inthis regard, this study has conducted a survey in one of the oldest parks in Khorramabad, Iran, to reveal the overallsatisfaction of the park situation and to explore the preferences of users regarding the characteristics of appropriate hardand soft landscape elements of the park. This paper uses five independent combined analyses covering elements of theurban park, including locational, functional, physical, visual and the vegetation characteristics in order to provide themost preferable elements for rehabilitation of this park. For finding significant results, questionnaires are distributedamong 100 park users during spring 2014. Findings of the research show general dissatisfaction regarding the existingcondition of the park and provide some key points that can be helpful for improvement of the quality of the park basedon visitors' ideas.