Locating the temporary landscapes in order to improve the quality of the urban living environment

Introduction and aim:

The ‘Temporary urban landscapes’, is ascribed to temporary usage of lands and useless spaces in the city which can be used as arena of cultural-social events and also as the occasion of emerging citizen’s behavior. These spaces that can play important role in enhancing the social correlations, improving the citizen’s behavior and the quality of their living environment. The 8th region of metropolis Mashhad, because of its neighborhood with Razavi Holy Shrine and being important center for holding rites, ethics and rituals at different situations and the move of religious groups(carnival) towards Holy Shrine and also numerous abandoned places have a big potential in planning for locating temporary urban landscapes. Hence this paper’s aim is locating temporary urban landscapes appropriately in 8th region of Mashhad by using AHP, which is based on four standards including, social-cultural, skeletal, performance and availability and 19 substandard.

The process of completing this study is done by identifying current situation, defining standards and substandard and using Analytical Hierarchy Process. The data in this research have been collected through using libraries and fieldwork (completing questionnaire by specialists and city experts).

In this research final weight of locating’s standards, is retrieved from the specialists and city expert’s view point. They are obtained as performance standard (0/550), availability standards (0/314), skeletal standards (0/069) and social-cultural standards (0/066).

The result showed that north region, include Bahar ST and from Imam Khomeini ST to Imam Khomeini SQ is in the first priority, Kouhsangi and Passenger Terminals is the second priority, Namjou ST and Sento Rd is in the third and finally the south part of region is in the last priority for locating temporary urban landscapes.