Ghasrdasht Gardens in Shiraz - Iran

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Why is this case relevant?

Ghasrodasht gardens in Shiraz, due to expansion of the city and rapid massive constructions are swallowed. As a consequence of replacing green lands by residential site, the characteristics of land cover are changed and ecological structure and function of the landscape is completely transformed. In current situation, most of the gardens in the area are being neglected, unusable, segregated and the farm lands lost their productivity. Ghasrdasht gardens as one of the last green portions in the city is valuable and proposing a feasible concept and strategy in order to maintain them is a big challenge.

In this section you talk about the design concept of your area. Is it a highly maintained site, i.e. does the design with nature require intensive maintenance? Or does the site follow a more organic interpretation of nature? Which changes are expected if maintenance is missing?

Here you discuss the types of negative impact you are observing but you can also mention new functions that could give a development opportunity

Finally, please share some ideas of how you would initiate positive change for your heritage area