خلاصة:
One of the fundamental notions of realization of sustainable city within the framework of the theory of sustainable development is what affects the urban green spaces as well as the influence they may have. As the upshot of years’ worth of experiences in the ideology of Iranian urban design, Iranian garden is of magnificently high position which possesses the potentials to act as the green space with a variety of functions to serve the promotion of sustainability in today’s cities. Closely studying Dolat Abad garden as one example of the exquisite Iranian garden architecture in a comparative analysis, this study examines the role of gardens in the achievement of today’s cities to sustainability within the frameworks of the theory of sustainable city. It will also attempt to prove the hypothesis regarding that Dolat Abad garden and the Taj Mahal have established themselves as sustainable elements in the two contemporary cities of Yazd and Agra, and will accordingly continue to remain so.
ملخص الجهاز:
It will also attempt to prove the hypothesis regarding that Dolat Abad garden and the Taj Mahal have established themselves as sustainable elements in the two contemporary cities of Yazd and Agra, and will accordingly continue to remain so.
In this approach, considering the "requirements and demands of future generations", gardens (and especially such large-scale, well-known ones as Dolat Abad and Taj Mahal) are assumed to be the principal element as they play the catalyst in the realization of sustainable city in both Iranian and Indian urban designs.
The present article studies the components of sustainable city and conducts a comparative analysis of Iranian and Indian gardens (with Dolat Abad and Taj Mahal as the case studies), and proposes gardens as the indispensible part of the process of achieving urban sustainability.
The hypothesis of the article has as well been formed based on the notion regarding that Dolat Abad and Taj Mahal gardens have established themselves as sustainable elements in the contemporary cities, and will continue to be so.
Also, Longman defines this word as ability to continue for a long time" (Fox, 2007), while it is elsewhere defined as having positive effects on the society, economy, and environmental conditions in future in other places (Cowan, 2005), In fact, "sustainability" seems to be a "process rather than a chain of related ideas, whose basic principles are deduced from the changes in conditions, ideas, and technological capabilities" (Sendich, 2006, 95)" In the meantime, it must be considered that in order to reach its objective, sustainability needs the local innovations" (Cuthbert, 2003, 235) to attain global goals.