Assessing the structural quality of green space network in urban environments - case study: District 16 of Tehran Municipality

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the Institute for Research and Development in the Humanities (SAMT)

Abstract

Urban green spaces are one of the most important components in dealing with the harmful effects of cities. This part of land use has an effective role in environmental and ecological services in cities. Considering the limited land and resources, achieving maximum performance of urban green space is one of the issues that city planners are facing. The performance of urban green space is greatly influenced by its network. Accordingly, in this article, the structural quality index of urban green space network is introduced based on the theoretical foundations of landscape ecology and urban green space functions. Numerical calculations of this index and other metrics used in its compilation were performed to evaluate the structural quality of the green space network in District 16 of Tehran Municipality. Results show that the Besat neighborhood has the highest level of structural quality in green space. Also, in this article, moving window analysis was used to map the structural quality index. The structural quality map of the green space network can be used optimally in the process of managing and improving the performance of urban green space

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Geographical Urban Planning Research (GUPR)
Volume 10, Issue 1
April 2022
Pages 81-99

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