Investigation of the Users’ Preferences to Improve the Situation of Greenery in Birjand City (Iran)

It is inevitable that landscape and opens space sustainablity to be a reflection of the potential users’ preferences. The aim of this research is recognition of the citizens' attitudes which should obviously be considered in urban parks and green spaces rehabilitation procedure. The voices of the users help designers to determine the main concept for the rehabilitation of current greenery situation. This study was undertaken to reflect the park and green spaces users’ voice in Birjand (center of Southern Khorasan province in the east of Iran). The proposed methods and results of this study could be applied in the procedure of rehabilitation of the open and green spaces in that city. The data was mainly gathered by distribution of questionnaires among the inhabitants of quadruplet zones in mentioned city. The methodologies of this research are documentary, analytical, and measurement methods. Furthermore the required analysis has been conducted. The findings of this investigation indicate that the priorities of varied citizens based on their demographic ingredients and socio-economic characteristics are different. But generally, the achievement of this research shows that from viewpoint of the Birjand's inhabitants, the plant species of urban parks should be diversified and promoted by utilization of the various kind of plants species of all categories (broad leaved trees, needle leaved trees, ground covers and seasonal), and contrary to the former procedure, planting should not be merely concentrated on the needle leaved trees. Furthermore, most of Brigands’ residents have assessed the toilets, drinker's instruments, and children play equipments as the most important priority which should be amended. Beside these, attention to the youth and students' demands was emphasized, and most of respondents were in favor of stone pavement.