Developing Sustainable Landscape Design Principles in Order to Achieve Natural Landscape Revitalization of Shiraz Khoshk River

The current research has been designed to revive the natural landscape of Khoshk River as an alive and dynamic ecosystem of Shiraz city. In the revitalization process of this natural landscape, first the current status of the river bed have been studied and analyzed through recognizing its strengths, weaknesses, potentials and threats. Then, with an emphasis on sustainable landscape design principles in natural landscapes that emphasize the protection of natural resources, designs that show the ecological, cultural and social beauty of this natural landscape of Khoshk River and suggestions for organizing it have been presented. These suggestions emphasize the importance of protecting the airspace above the river bed in order to promote acceptance by migratory birds, eliminating incompatible developments such as the Namazi Hospital and Shiraz water refinery and constructing a water and soil dam in order to store water in low rainfall seasons and design the margins of the natural landscape of Khoshk River.