Reading Village Landscapes, A Necessary Condition for Place-oriented Development (A Case Study of Darb Gonbad Village, Kuhdasht County)

The rural landscape as a phenomenon resulting from the interaction of humans with the environment can be considered as the result of the thought process of the residents and affected by the cultural and physical factors of the village. Reading the landscapes is a necessary condition for understanding the whole in the direction of the spatial development of the village according to its spatial components and existence. Based on the field observations, this study attempts to clarify the problem and advance the research by answering the following main question: What is the role of reading and knowing the landscape of the village in its place-oriented development process? This article presents a model of landscape reading based on the concept of place, based on field observations and their adaptation to library resources, with a holistic approach. In this regard, a case study of Darb Gonbad village was studied based on a model that includes three stages of its landscape: first, the study of intellectual works such as travelogues, documents, and historical books that provide a general picture of the elements of the landscape and its structures. provided to the reader. Second, to investigate and understand the core, center, and cause of the formation of the village to understand its ontological and general causes. Third, examining the name to understand the cause or causes of the formation of the city as a whole. The conclusion of the research indicates that the landscape of the village is the result of a meaningful relationship between the elements of the river, the plain (agricultural fields), Imamzadeh, and the mountain. These elements in relation to each other have formed units, which in relation to each other have created a whole unit called the village. The development model of Darb Gonbad village will be balanced and sustainable if it considers the village as a whole unit of its components. Any intervention in the village system, if it takes into account the meaningful relationship between these elements, will improve the landscape of the village based on its spatial talents.