Reviving edible landscape of Persian garden with the aim of developing urban horticulture in the Eram and Afifabad gardens in Shiraz

In this study, the main discussion is about how Persian garden affects the realization of urban horticulture in Iranian cities. The research hypothesis focuses on the conditions and characteristics of Persian garden and introduces it as a starting point and a tool for landscape planning under the general idea of urban gardening. This study seeks to answer the question of how the Persian garden can be a starting point for the development of urban gardening in Iran as a new tool in urban and landscape planning. The research method is qualitative and a combination of analytical-descriptive research method and citation method. The results of the study show that conservative approaches that seek to protect urban historic gardens through laws and regulations do not guarantee agricultural activities in the gardens. Therefore, the recreational and leisure functions of the garden have prevailed over other production services that can be realized in the garden. The authors seek to revive the edible heritage of the Persian garden by proposing two strategies: public-involving and place-making strategies. In terms of public-involving strategy, the Persian Garden is the place where activists of agriculture and urban horticulture through teaching the traditional principles of horticulture, help revive the edible heritage of the Persian garden and turn the garden from a purely tourist and historical space into a productive and fruitful garden. In terms of place-making strategy, in the process of designing and rehabilitating dilapidated urban green spaces, while respecting the Iranian horticultural culture, the systematic and accurate presence of productive plant species and urban horticulture spaces can be provided. In the place-making strategy, for designing, constructing or reviving public orchards, social orchards, educational agricultural landscapes, planting fruit trees in parks, restoring promenades and improving the visual landscape of urban green space, we can pay attention to the indigenous patterns of multifunctional gardening of Persian gardens.