The Role of Urban Design in Achieving Sustainability through Promotion of Sustainable Behaviors (Case Study: Mellat Park in Tehran, Iran)

Sustainability is debated in social and economic aspects of urban design but there are few studies on behavioral aspect of it. People with their behavioral patterns have the most significant role in achieving sustainability. The promotion of Behavioral pattern is considered a down-top planning in a country thus any lack in governmental activities enhance the importance of this approach. It means in developing countries where the government does not succeed to achieve sustainability through its top-down planning, considering down-top planning could be efficient. Behavioral patterns shape people consumption of energy and resources and finally determine the consumption rate of city resources. Urban design is one of the branches of knowledge that can obtain the possibility of some circumstances in public spaces of cities for better behaviors so in this article we can suggest some strategies to achieve this target. This article tries to survey how we can achieve patterns of sustainable behavior through some physical changes in urban spaces in the case study of Mellat Park in Tehran, Iran.