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.