Creating an Urban Place According to the Landscape Ecology Approaches(Case Study: Tehran’s Shohada-ye Khalij-e Fars Lake)

In recent decades, due to the deterioration of environmental conditions worldwide, attention has been given to environmental and ecological issues by theorists, planners and urban designers. Urban Place experts are no exception. The aim of this study was to provide a conceptual model to explain the relationship between urban place theory and landscape ecology and then turn this model into a pattern. In the pattern presented in this research, using the landscape ecology approaches, the creation of an urban place has been done by determining the position of the components involved in it. The model presented in this study as Eco Place Pattern has four Physical, Activity, Meaning and Ecological components. There are a number of criteria for each component, which include twelve criteria. These criteria include: Landscape Ecology, Accessibility, Human Scale, Readability, Flexibility, Visual Beauty, Environmental Comfort, Security and Safety, Activity, Attention to Economics, Sensational Richness and Identity. The Shohada-ye Khalij-e Fars Lake was selected as case study and it compliance with the Eco Place pattern was investigated by ANP method. The results of the studies show the extent of it high compliance with the proposed model, but due to the importance of changes in the landscape ecology principles, modification of ecological trends in order not to reduce the quality of these urban places is recommended.