The Role of Landscape Approach in Improving Satisfaction with the Urban Environment

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

1 Department of Architecture, South branc, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Tehran, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, South branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

4 Associate Professor, Department of Urban planning, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran.

Abstract

Problem statement: Satisfaction is the process of positive judgment of the phenomena and is influenced by the components that rely on a studied theoretical basis. Today, the urban landscape projects have increased in quantity; however, it is yet a question why the quality of these projects cannot satisfy the citizens’ needs and leave a significant impact on their positive judgment and the tangible quality of the city. Therefore, the main question of this study asks: “what is the relationship between the components of the landscape approach and the components of satisfaction?”
Aim: The aim of this research is to increase the audience’s satisfaction from urban landscape projects, and hence the city, and to define a specific setting for urban landscape projects.
Research method: This study is conducted using qualitative and content analysis methods. Therefore, the concept of satisfaction and the influential variables are reviewed, and a new definition of satisfaction is presented in the next stage. Thereafter, the experts’ points of view about the concept of the landscape is discussed, and eventually, the relationship between the landscape approach and the effective factors of satisfaction are scrutinized.
Conclusion: The results of this study shows that satisfaction and landscape approach are common in paying attention to the audience’s subjectivity. However, the proprietary nature of landscape approach is to pay concurrent attention to both the objective and the subjective aspects of the phenomenon, which, in principle, cannot be achieved independently and separately. Therefore, the landscape approach provides a better and more favorable condition for promoting satisfaction, since objective factors are transformed according to mental interpretations. The landscape approach emphasizes on the simultaneous function of the object and subject in the presentation of a project and believes that when the urban space is recognized as a landscape, it is impossible to distinguish between its different dimensions, such as the substance and meaning.

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The Monthly Scientific Journal of Bagh-e Nazar
Volume 16, Issue 76
October 2019
Pages 45-56

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