The Landscape Visual Management Guidelines in Khoor Highway Park in South Khorasan Province

Landscape as one of the important national resources, cultural and natural heritage that applauded its beauty and its visual characteristics, has a serious share in region identity and genius loci. The landscape has an important application in people enjoyment from natural and man-made environments. Also the landscape is causing the progress of financial and social aspects of regional development in the basis of sustainable development. This research is an effort to visual assessment of landscape of khoor highway park in desert area, 70 km. west of Birjand (the center of south khorasan province), which had been regarded as a desert park by Natural resources Organization. The method of gathering information is based on literature review and field study. Thus the visual assessment of landscape of khoor highway park was done in second phases. The first phase contains visual characteristics of landscape recognition and second phase contains landscape analysis and deduction. In this research, the check list and visual description and analysis techniques had been used to assess the characteristics of landscape types of khoor highway park. The most important achievement of this research is to assess the landscape of Khoor highway park, and researcher's proposals for landscape visual management guidelines, which entail conservation, rehabilitation, and transformation.