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Iman Saeedi

Iman Saeedi

Academic rank: Assistant Professor
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Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Natural Resources and Enviroments
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Research

Title
Modeling the relationships between hardscape color and user satisfaction in urban parks
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Satisfaction · Built elements · Urban parks · Color · Happiness · Hard landscape · Landscape design
Year
2020
Journal Environment, Development And Sustainability
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Researchers Iman Saeedi

Abstract

Urban parks are important components of everyday life and have important contributions to residents’ satisfaction with their neighborhoods. While the literature about urban park satisfaction has developed rapidly in some facets, it is still less comprehensible whether there is any association between hardscape color and user satisfaction in urban parks. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to investigate the efect of hardscape elements’ colors on users’ satisfaction. To fnd the relationships between hardscape elements’ colors and users’ satisfaction, Nahj al-Balagheh Park of Tehran was selected, and a logistic regression analysis was applied to fnd the best ft model defning the relationships. According to the model, there are negative correlations between satisfaction and the color of paving, buildings, pergolas, canopies, and fags. The results also showed that respondents were not satisfed with the colors that contradict the harmony of the natural colors. The color of large hard elements was found to be more efective on user satisfaction compared to the small elements. The color of paving was found to have the highest level of association with satisfaction followed by the color of buildings and the least numerical value was for the color of fags. The results of this study can be useful for the rehabilitation of urban parks to enhance users’ satisfaction.