Suggesting a Multi-Purpose Greenway Planning in Persian Coastal Areas Case studies: Anzali in the North Near the Caspian Sea and Bushehr in the South Near the Persian Gulf

In the present article, the author seeks to define sustainable greenway planning along coastal areas in the North and South of Iran based both on the historical heritages of green routes in the country and international greenway theory that is concerned with American and British definitions. For this reason, in the half first of this paper, the principles and concepts of historical Persian green routes have been scrutinized and identified and then, in the second half of the paper, according to the historical and cultural backgrounds and regional context of these coastal areas, an applied multi-functional greenway plan for settlements in the aforementioned regions has been proposed. Finally, the author concludes that, in the present century, local authorities have to pay attention both to regional conditions and international ideas of the same period to achieve landscape and environmental sustainability. It can be mentioned that in this article, the author used academic resources and applied an analyzing-describing method as a scientific research method. In addition, the two coastal cities of Anzali, on the Caspian Sea, and Bushehr, on the Persian Gulf, have been analyzed.