role of green spaces in promotion of the sense of belonging to the place in residential complexes of qom

The correlation between urban green space and sense of belonging has been investigated in researches; however, few scholars have mentioned the relationship between the designable physical components of vegetation and the sense of belonging. this study investigates a relationship between three physical parameters of green space - visual density, weighted height of vegetation, and per capita ratio of green space to an open common area of the complex - and a resident’s sense of belonging through five subjective and objective independent variables - transparency, proportion and scale, physical and visual diversity, flexibility and privacy and enclosure - in four residential complexes in the city of qom - the center of iran. data were extracted from a survey study (n=320), documents, and written sources. it was analyzed using second-order confirmatory factor analysis and hierarchical linear regression. based on the research literature review and identified gaps, a conceptual model was presented to explain the factors contributing to promoting a sense of place through greening in residents. in the results, a level of a perceived sense of belonging of the residents of the samples in the central courtyard was observed to be higher than in the scattered courtyard. also, a positive correlation was observed between the psychological and physical components of the green space with the feeling of belonging to a place. the findings showed that among the psychological components, the transparency, and among the physical components, the per-capita green area had the most positive effect on the resident’s sense of belonging