Cultural Planning Strategies for Urban Parks (Case Study: Fateh Garden, Karaj, Iran)

Cultural planning, as a place-based approach, has been used in some cases, but it is less frequently used in urban parks. In this s tudy, an experimental inves tigation was conducted to explore how cultural planning can be used to identify the cultural resources of Fateh Garden, as one of the mos t popular parks in Karaj, and the officials and users' approach to its cultural resources to provide recommendations to improve Fateh Garden conditions. This s tudy was based on direct observations of components, activities, events, interviews with the park users and officials, and a focus group discussion. The results revealed that Fateh Garden acts as a thriving urban park with popular cultural resources. Based on the cultural resources of Fateh Garden and the use of creative methods, this s tudy has provided sugges tions for improving its situation. The results presented here may also facilitate improvements in other urban parks based on their cultural resources.

Keywords:

Cultural planning , cultural resources , Urban parks , Fateh Garden