Urban Scape
Hajar Assadpour; Mahmoud Ghalehnoee; Armin Bahramian
Abstract
Although many years have passed since the introduction of the concept of landscape in the Iranian architecture and urban planning literature, there is still no semantic agreement on its concept through theorists and researchers. However, it can be said that the urban landscape has an objective aspect ...
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Although many years have passed since the introduction of the concept of landscape in the Iranian architecture and urban planning literature, there is still no semantic agreement on its concept through theorists and researchers. However, it can be said that the urban landscape has an objective aspect of the city that urban users encounter and experience, and the representations formed in the mind that are the result of the experience of the environment refer to the mental aspect of the landscape. In general, the urban landscape is formed from the interaction of objectivity and subjectivity. Like any other concept, Research in the field of the urban landscape has methods and processes. However, a comprehensive model of the research process in the urban landscape is an issue that is less mentioned and raises the need for current research. Research onion as a research design guide is a tool that helps to organize and develop the research project following its layers step by step. Because the research onion presented by Saunders et al. does not cover all urban landscape research methods/approaches, this article tries to develop an urban landscape research onion model to make changes in it. Therefore, after conducting a systematic review of articles published in this field, the research process has been advanced by using a qualitative method and content analysis, and the structure and content of articles in the field of urban landscape have been reviewed. In the end, the results showed that the onion model of urban landscape research has seven layers as follows: philosophy (first two layers), approach, Methodological choice and process, strategy, time horizon, techniques and procedures. Following the research path through this model can answer the research question and issue more efficiency and purposeful.
