Urban Greenbelt/Green space Planning with the Focus on Warm and Dry Regions of Southern Iran

Planning and designing of the urban spaces and landscapes is not possible without considering the issues, criteria, rules, standards, suitable and premium patterns regarding the development. One of the planning and designing schemes is the urban greenbelt planning. In each urban space some of the views of the city are allocated to the green spaces. Accordingly, the herbaceous species congruent and adaptable with the region should be used in urban greenbelt developments that are based on the environmental and natural conditions. In warm and dry regions of southern Iran, due to some unfavorable natural and/or environmental conditions such as high temperature, low rainfall, salinity, gypsum and calcareous soil, some special herbaceous specious should be used in greenbelt planning. Therefore, in order to use urban green spaces of warm and dry regions (southern Iran) something will be done in the field of urban green space. This can be achieved by considering through management styles and proper urban green space planning selecting the suitable herbaceous species, along with rating the effective nesses in reaching the targeted goals.This study is based on the applicable purposes and according to a case-descriptive method. The required data for the study are collected through document-library method. We have attempted to review and examine the styles and models of urban green space planning, their importance and necessity, the goals of the criteria and the standards of urban green space, while considering the climatic and regional patterns in the green space, and introducing the favorable herbaceous species to be used in the urban green spaces of warm and dry regions of southern Iran. Results of the study reveal that using native and local herbaceous species of warm and dry regions provide variety and beauty, and are influential in reducing sound, air and other pollutions and are also effective because of the fact that they need less maintenance, are more congruent and are more economically sound.