A Study of Sustainable Development in Parks of North Tehran According to SDG11, Case Studies: Niyavaran and Qeytariyeh Parks

Sustainable development is one of the important subjects in our world. It means supporting the needs of current populations without dangerous effects on the resources of future generations. This subject finds its vital role in different sciences. As an effort towards sustainable development goals (SDG), goals were defined by the United Nations organization (in the United Nations General Assembly) in 2015. This short-term agenda is to be implemented by 2030 and contains 17 goals centering climate change and environmental preservation and focusing on health, education, equality, economic growth. In this paper, two parks, Qeytariyeh Park and Niyavaran Park were studies in Northern Tehran, Iran according to SDG. The study was designed specifically around goal 11 and the application of sustainable development in cities. After a literature review of research, the parks were reviewed to trace their success as a public space according to the SDG point of view. Qualitative methods were used to investigate field observations and personal interviews with daily visitors of the parks selected randomly with small control over demographics of gender and age. The main aim of the paper is to find how much these parks be successful public space according to sustainable development standards and in the end, there are proposed solutions to solve the weakness of these case studies.