Futuristic planning and design of urban parks with the approach of promoting social interactions

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Department of Urban and Rural Planning, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran

2 Department of Horticultural Sciences & Landscape , Faculty of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran

10.22059/jne.2025.390464.2772

Abstract

Landscape types and urban green spaces, especially urban parks, are considered to be one of the most important urban urban spaces and can play a significant role in improving social relations between citizens. Accordingly, the purpose of this research is to research the future of planning and designing urban parks with The approach was to promote social interactions. To collect data, library resources were used to write an introduction and interviews were conducted in two stages to reach the actors and objectives. The first interview was conducted to identify the main actors and important goals related to the research objective. In the next stage, actor-actor and actor-target matrices were formed and provided to the experts in the form of Word software. They were asked to first determine the effects of the actors on each other and then reveal the extent to which the actors agreed or disagreed with the objectives. After entering the experts' opinions in the MACTOR software, related analyses were performed and finally the final research model was extracted through the ATLAS.ti software. Islamic city councils and municipalities are the most influential actors, as well as urban planners and urban designers have been introduced as actors who have shown the most influence after Islamic city councils and municipalities, and finally, green space engineers and landscape architects have been introduced as Actors were recognized as influential or defeated. And in relation to the level of competitiveness of the actors, it can be said that the Islamic councils of the city were recognized as having the most competitive power among the actors, and the municipalities were ranked second in terms of competitiveness, which shows the influence of the two aforementioned actors and the direction of the decisions of these actors It shows the involvement well for other actors. Also, designing pause spaces in urban parks, establishing security and safety in urban parks, considering group games and using group benches as the most important goals and avoiding complex designs in the place of the weakest goals and approaches in order to achieve.

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Available Online from 03 June 2025