TITLE:
The Role and Heterogeneity of Visual Pollution on the Quality of Urban Landscape Using GIS; Case Study: Historical Garden in City of Maraqeh
AUTHORS:
Parisa Nami, Parvin Jahanbakhsh, Arefe Fathalipour
KEYWORDS:
Urban Landscape, Visual Pollution, Urban Vitality, Quality
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Geology,
Vol.6 No.1,
January
27,
2016
ABSTRACT: The urban landscape
heterogeneity has been influenced by the visual, unpleasant and unacceptable
face of which there is no charm in it. The present study is formed according to
visual pollution and its impact on the appearance and vitality of a city.
Preliminary studies and theoretical studies led to the hypothesis with the
following themes: 1) There is relationship between the pollution, heterogeneity
and visual disturbances urban landscape and urban vitality; 2) Improving the
quality, aesthetics and identity of public spaces will increase urban vitality.
Therefore, the design process within the theoretical principles, concepts,
television and urban landscape, urban art, visual pollution aspects (color,
light, and visual symbol) and the quality of urban vitality and explain causal
relationships, analytical framework developed and more samples case (garden
historic town of Maraqeh1) and the area under study were selected
using GIS. After designing the questionnaire to evaluate the objectives,
assumptions and questions of research and its analysis, the results indicate
that the relationship between visual pollution and urban vitalitys, as well as
proving hypotheses and vitality after the final analysis, model was introduced
based on the components of comfort visual editing and proposed at three levels:
micro, middle and macro for objectives, strategies and policies to regulate
visual pollution and improve the aesthetic quality of the environment and the
promotion of vitality.