EVALUATION HISTOROCAL NATURAL PARKS  (CASE STUDY OF THE TOURIST PARK BABYLON)

K. A. Al-Bawi, S.; N. Jasim, S.

	EVALUATION HISTOROCAL NATURAL PARKS (CASE STUDY OF THE TOURIST PARK BABYLON)
Euphrates Journal of Agriculture Science
Article 1, Volume 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 9-20
Authors
S. K. A. Al-Bawi; S. N. Jasim
Abstract
Recently the attention of urban planners and landscape designers Oriented towards the Importanceof parks that combine thenatural landscape and urban heritageto develop and raise the level of performance to meet with human needs, as reflected through the characteristics of design and features of human interaction with nature, The evaluation of design characteristics of the historical landscape parks from different aspects is one of the most important goals that aspires landscape designer to study it within the master plan of the city, due the importance of that point the necessary to study and assess the Babylon tourism park has come, where it was chosen to be a model for the development of parks in the city of Hilla, as well as the exploitation of the natural landscape of the land and the existing cultural the research reliedafield study methodology included if the study was to evaluate the importance of the historical landscape of the park, as well as evaluating the characteristics and features of the landscape of the city of Hilla, in addition to the evaluation of vegetation at the site.Forms were calculated distributed to several reviewers of experienced and competent for the purpose of evaluation, After collecting information fromevaluators, data have been order using" Microsoft Office Excel 2010" percentages for evaluators answers activity, The nature monitoring activity has obtained the highest evaluation, followed by the recreational trips the parks activity, roaming and finally the events, and that was confirmed by the results for the parks evaluation of importance the results for all of the aspects, where it gained a maximum Scenes,as for thevegetation ,the trees has a highVariability in terms of type and density, while the bushes variation was high to medium in trems of shape and density it shows that Babylon park is one of the most important natural historical parks, which is located in the Hilla city, and its importance increases in comparison with the other parks of the city because it is considered to be a strong attraction elements for the city culturally and historically because of its relevance to an important historical events as well as its natural and environmental importance.
Keywords
Evaluation; Landscape; historical; natural parks

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