People Attitudes and Perceptions to the Urban Landscape Planning in Niro Daryaee Edged Community of Tehran

ABSTRACT: Providing efficient programme to promote urban landscape is considered as one of the most significant element of development in developed cities. The significance will become more considerable in edges of megacities where a lot of environmental, social, and economic issues are evident. This article is trying to deal with the importance of landscape control in relation with a neighborhood by suggesting urban landscape planning perspective. The main goal of this research is an understanding of people needs and problems related to the urban landscape planning in the new edged community of Nirodaryaee in Tehran. To achieve such a goal, a survey have been carried out in a local area to understand peoples attitude and characteristics as far as urban landscape planning are concerned. The research data are provided with interviews conducted with 42 local people based on the theme-based content analysis method. The findings of this paper show that factors such as private ownership, contact with the nature, accessibility, not wasting the land, hygiene and cleanliness and sociability of the area exerts a great influence over people `s attitude towards planning of urban landscape as far as eastern edge of Tehran is concerned.