Hydraulic Landscape, The Role of Water System in Shaping the Landscape of Qazvin Traditional Orchards

Document Type : Original Research Article

Authors

1 M.A. in Landscape Architecture, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran.

3 Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Architecture and Art, University of Bu-Ali Sina Hamadan, Iran.

Abstract

An important part of Iranian civilization has been shaped in connection with the management and exploitation of water resources on various scales. Qazvin traditional orchards are one of the unique examples of the connection between hydraulic infrastructure and the development of human settlements on the Iranian plateau. In the last half-century, the orchards have been destroyed in various ways and the importance of protecting its landscape has been discussed in recent decades.
Asking how to protect the landscape of the orchards, the study reads the landscape of Qazvin orchards from the perspective of shaping hydraulic infrastructure in an interpretive historical research methodology. By relying on historical documents, images and maps, along with contemporary studies on Qazvin orchards and oral history, interviews with trustees and orchardists, this research tries to analyze the role of hydraulic infrastructure in the formation of components and processes shaping the Qazvin orchards landscape. Finally, this article considers the landscape of Qazvin orchards as a hydraulic landscape A landscape that has been affected by the management and exploitation of water resources at all scales, from local to micro. Thus, the protection and rehabilitation of the landscape of Qazvin Orchards depends on the protection and rehabilitation of its traditional water system as a fundamental component of the landscape.
 

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MANZAR, the Scientific Journal of landscape
Volume 13, Issue 55
June 2021
Pages 30-41

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