Productive Landscape Design, a case study in southern part of Tehran

Urban productive landscape is a process of production in urban green space, which involves production of vegetables, herbs, ornamental flowers and fruit trees. The production process begins from small units in private yards, to the larger scale in the farm lands. Productive landscape is beneficial to the society and people. Agricultural lands in southern Tehran have been selected as case study, in order to be reorganised hence, part of these agricultural land is selected to be designed, in local scale. The selected site is considerable from two main aspects, firstly, the residential fabric which is penetrated in to the agricultural land, caused various types of pollution in the environment, and secondly, its establishment in the southern edge of Tehran. Increasing conversion of agricultural lands to residential and industrial construction occurred, while the importance of productive landscape has been ignored in the selected site. productive landscape's restoration, will empower various changes in residential fabric, it improves social interactions and it will restore and enhance environmental quality. Urban productive landscape is capable to empower and improve the environmental, economical and social aspects of the city. It will revitalize natural and cultural landscape and it will improve the interaction in between man and nature, as well. Preservation of productive landscape as an urban land use is periphery requirements to create a sustainable landscape. Thus, productive landscape describe as a conversion, from an entire consuming green space to a productive green space. Therefore, the paper will discuss productive landscape design as solution to work out issues within this particular site.