Paying attention to the spatial placement of the elements (man-made or natural) based on the LANDSCAPE pattern and ecological processes inURBAN design would have a considerable impact on both human and the nature. In a way that the discords in the placement of patchs inrespect to each other, or in respect to visual corridors and URBAN matrixes lead to the unwanted results in the cities. The effect of suchdiscords can be seen in continental changes, loss of energy (increase in the consumption of fossil energies), etc. Aim of this study is todesign a city based on the recognition of relationships between the patches and corridors and natural/ artificial matrixes; also, introductionand the design method based on the fundamental URBAN LANDSCAPE guidelines which is done with a qualitative approach in the form oflibrary research and identification of the situation, size and other elements of patches, corridors and matrixes by using aerial-photos andGIS maps. Based on this, the research compilation process is in a way that first discusses the importance of this subject and the designmethods in this study and different suggested methods in the field of ecological URBAN LANDSCAPE design and explores Iranian and worldwideexperimentations on the subject by presenting new solutions like the placement of the artificial and natural patch and corridors, matrixes, e. g, designing beach parks across the rivers to protect and maintain the natural corridor, preservation of green patches as the URBAN-parks, etc. The author hopes that presented solutions of this research in the field of design, would help to solve the mentioned issues and problemsregardless of its minor delineation.

The problems of rapid civilizations, ignorance of URBAN open spaces & URBAN sprawls especially in Europe and North American cities, cause the new approach "LANDSCAPE URBANism" in recent decades. Besides, interaction and overlaps between LANDSCAPE architecture and URBAN design and ignorance of them to the LANDSCAPE and open space as a main infrastructure of the city has been increased the need for this approach. In the traditional approaches, architecture always considered as a main element of city building. However, with the growing importance of LANDSCAPE URBANism, this emphasize as been changed.The main goal of this article is to understand LANDSCAPE URBANism as a new approach emergent according to the interaction of LANDSCAPE architecture and URBAN design. The result of this article shows that LANDSCAPE URBANism as a new trend owns its fundamentals and goals from LANDSCAPE architecture and URBAN design. This approach has an interdisciplinary nature. In this trend, LANDSCAPE and open space as main elements of the city building are the core emphasizes. The survey of academic conditions shows that a few universities establish independent educational programs of LANDSCAPE URBANism. Teaching the courses of this discipline is done in the middle of the related programs syllabuses.

Although 'Identity' in its total and popular sense, has the great ancientness and equality with the human being civilization history, the record of this controversy is not so much precedent. Ease and abstainer of the sense of identity in the process of recognition and perception, bring us amulti-dimensional and complicated phenomenon.Since the city is a window for presentation of community thoughts to the outer world and is the bedrock for creation of civic life, relation of identity and URBAN LANDSCAPE become an effective category on correlated sciences with this zone and effort to find out the essence of URBAN LANDSCAPE for evaluation of immense intervention politics on current cities is obligatory.This article aims to describe identity and URBAN definitions by applying the recent theory of' URBAN LANDSCAPE Identity 'and quantize identity as a qualitative object as well as analyzing different dimensions of this concept and finally contribute to its concise literature.Because of the following reasons, the aim of this paper is not to present minute strategies for continuing the identity of URBAN LANDSCAPE: First, the URBAN studies are so vast that it is not possible to present a certain approach for that.Second, prerequisite of detailed approach is presentation of voluminous report, which will be far from the aim of this paper.Third, It's the first time that this subject is introduced in an academic paper and it's seemed that basic and extended analyze is more beneficial than minute technique programming.

According to available evidence, ancient Iranian cities have been developed based on the duality of man and nature and their interplay. This has resulted in an artificial environment, such as an URBAN LANDSCAPE. With the development of URBANism based on scientific, industrial, and technical specializations driven by contemporary science, there has been a great focus on URBAN structure. Such emphasis on structure-driven development has created a distance between human and nature in the environment. It has resulted in disciplines such as LANDSCAPE based on the “ Inseparability of objectsubject, ” ecology in URBAN development based on the “ natural ecosystem continuity in the city. ” The current study aims to propose strategies for cultural, human, and environmental concerns in URBAN growth. This study is developmental-applied research, which attempts to develop interdisciplinary strategies in a challenging interaction between the concept of the URBAN LANDSCAPE and URBAN ecology in URBAN development planning programs that apply to multiple scales. The results indicate that there is an interactive relationship between the subjective and objective layers of the URBAN LANDSCAPE and URBAN ecology on three scales: micro, intermediary, and macro. The components of this interaction include the set of concrete experiences of residents in the face of the URBAN structure; the creation of perceptual-memory images based on natural and artificial URBAN signs; and the creation of perceptual realms of the URBAN environment. If explicable strategies for their formation are incorporated into the URBAN development program, there would be two layers of the URBAN LANDSCAPE and URBAN ecology in the structure of contemporary cities. This will make human/nature alignment possible. In other words, the URBAN environment will form a part of the citizens’ mental view of the city and be institutionalized in the public mind as an element of the URBAN LANDSCAPE.

The phenomenon of rapid URBANization and transformation of existing cities has put the conservation of heritage areas in the core of URBAN planning agenda. However, the traditional notions of monuments, groups of buildings or city sections, identifying them as separate entities within a wider URBAN context, is no longer sufficient to protect the characteristics and qualities of heritage from fragmentation, degeneration and subtraction of significance. Therefore, there was a transformation in both concept and scale of conservation, aroused from the challenges in this field, and as a consequence, a new approach to deal with properties in territorial scale, the Historic URBAN LANDSCAPE, emerged. This approach moves the consideration of URBAN areas into an ecological framework, and accepts a dynamic rather than static view of cultural heritage in general, and URBAN heritage in particular. On 10 November 2011 UNESCO’ s General Conference adopted the new Recommendation on the Historic URBAN LANDSCAPE (HUL) by acclamation, the first by UNESCO regarding URBAN heritage since 1976 (UNESCO 1976), aiming to facilitate the integration of heritage management and URBAN development. This Recommendation promotes a LANDSCAPEbased approach, in which the existence of an inventory of resources and the identification of values and vulnerabilities are essential factors when drawing up URBAN development policies. Likewise, particular emphasis is placed, not only on the involvement of different disciplines but also on the role of other stakeholders and the community in heritage management and consequently in URBAN development where relevant. The HUL concept is not limited to the physical and spatial organization of the URBAN territory and its surroundings; it can also refer to social and cultural practices, economic processes, as well as other intangible dimensions of heritage. The HUL approach is an answer to the management of historic cities under new forms of development pressure with the main goal to preserve the significance and qualities of the city itself. In fact, the question in HUL should be about “ historic URBAN LANDSCAPE concept and approach, ” which aims at preserving the quality of the human environment. There is an important role for all actors in gaining an understanding of the HUL concept and approach, and then developing and applying tools and best practices to implement this important guidance. The outcomes of applying the HUL approach include continuity of historic URBAN identity as part of daily life, thriving social interaction and economic activity, and environmental quality in historic settlements of all types. The HUL approach can aid in achieving these objectives. These goals can be achieved by applying the four tools through a six steps action plan that is circular in nature. In this way, the research aims to study the significance of the HUL concept and approach, gives answer to “ what HUL is about” and “ how can it be used in URBAN heritage management, ” using qualitative content analysis technique. This paper, addressing the UNESCO (2011) Recommendation, is structured as an explication employing sections of the HUL text with discussions of their meaning and import. Discussions are used to express the implications and diversity of applications of this important statement on the URBAN future.

Protecting historic URBAN LANDSCAPE against the swelling high-rise construction particularly in large cities has become known as one of the urgent issues over the past two decades. The northern gate of Shiraz city (Qur'an-gate), which designed from16th century to present the most appealing view of the whole city in a glance, does not have a special protection plan. This issue not only pose threat to physical damage for Qur'an-gate LANDSCAPE but also pose concern to omitting the unique identity and reminisce of this valuable viewpoint. Thus the main goal of this research is to assess visual problems faced with this historic LANDSCAPE, with emphasis on two integral landmarks namely: Shah-e-Cheragh shrine and Ali-ebn-Hamzeh shrine. The research method is a combination of both quantitative and qualitative techniques. At the first step, three-dimensional analysis which known as the Visual Protection Surface (VPS) technique was implemented, using the ArcGIS and Rhino, to determined problematic zones based on current height and predicted height authorized by Shiraz’, s master plan. Then the simulated pedestrian views have been checked. The main difference between this article and the similar researches is attempted to use an accurate quantitative analysis method in LANDSCAPE analysis Instead of general qualitative methods. The results show that the current condition of the Qur'an-gate LANDSCAPE is less or more acceptable now. But authorized Shiraz’, s master plan height in the effective zone may strictly threated this non-renewable LANDSCAPE. It means by implementing the existing heights, including construction up to 24 meters in the northern section of the Hafez-street and up to 33. 5 meters in the Ali-ibn-Hamzeh-bridge, this 600years pedestrian views will collapse completely. Applying the VPS technique indicates that by reducing authorized height in just 93 construction blocks in a range from 1 to 14 meters and also strict monitoring to prevent the increase of unauthorized density, the full conservation of this historical URBAN LANDSCAPE simply provides for the present and future generations.

Nowadays, with the development of the modern world and population growth, URBAN sprawl, and the formation of new towns and peripheral, less attention has been paid to the issue of identity, the sense of place, and city residents or they have been completely forgotten.One of the issues that threatens identity is the Globalization and Global Village, which eliminated all traditional boundaries and led eventually to the point where a person can be awarded anywhere; While in situation as such, the person does not belong to any of the places he will go away and his or her place identity is destroyed. Thus, society will turn into a cultural space without identity, dignity and becomes more complex.The social context, in this case, of unidentified space, which is nowhere, sets to become into social life context, and the relation existed between place, culture and identity may be confused, whereas, by creating a sense of place and identity, it is possible to build and strengthen the person's belonging sense to a specific location or society. This research has in this field studied and emphasized on the aspects of the URBAN LANDSCAPE.To get the study objective, this research has studied the issue of URBAN identity from the perspective URBAN LANDSCAPE and URBAN LANDSCAPE elements such as URBAN furniture, landscaping, walls, URBAN spaces, trails, URBAN development, URBAN art, lighting, and the various social and cultural factors well have been directly involved.In this study, qualitative research methods, and the correlation methods for deriving documents and proof of identity and URBAN LANDSCAPE factors are used. It can be concluded from the discussions in this section of the town where there is less visual distURBANce, and the visual elements of the city enjoy a good proportion of visual LANDSCAPE, residents have relatively more sense of belonging and they can improve the city's identity.