Cultural Landscape Components of Abbasabad city of Mazandaran

The mutual interaction between man and the environment can be considered as the foundation of social events’ place. The cultural landscape as the result of nature, culture, and history, carries the cultural-natural values which are based on the interaction between human and nature throughout the history. Thus, neglecting cultural landscape as a vital indicator to create perceptual communication can break the meaningful connection between humans and the environment. Accordingly, the main objectives of this research are to find out the constituent components of the Abbas Abad cultural landscape and to identify the unknown aspects of the unique values of these components in the selected case study. The present study with the interpretivism paradigm, has a theoretical-practical nature, and is designed with a qualitative approach and mixed strategies including case study and comparative historical studies. The sampling strategy in field data was targeted non-random. The required data was collected through library and field (interviewing with 13 experts based on the saturation principle) methods. Finding of this process, along with content analysis of historical-comparative study strategy documents, led to the extraction of research findings. Designing urban space based on the cultural landscape as a multi-pronged phenomenon, by shaping a new experience from the urban landscape, will create a social motive as a stimulus to enhance the quality of urban life within tangible and intangible aspects. It means that social life in cities and people’s mental interwoven connection to the city is influenced by the cultural landscape used in urban areas that enhance the sense of belonging and permanence in the process of generational change. On the other hand, addressing the effective physical qualities in the environment such as the scale, distance, time and perception conditions are very effective in creating a connection between the audience and the environment. In other words, using these criteria will enhance the spirit of the place and the beauty of all the processes in a period of time with a certain quality, because the citizen’s mental entanglement will be formed when there is a sense of belonging to the city, in such a way that people consider themselves as active citizens in constructing the city.