Abstract:
From last 200 millenniums, humans are succeeding to prove their
dominance over nature and other species by adapting themselves with the
changing environment. Climate change is shaping our world and mostly affects
our urban centers. In this condition, to sustain and adapt with it, resilient cities are
our primary goal.
The new understanding of Cities as a part of natural world helps to eradicate the
former approach of thinking cities as antithesis of nature. Many movements
shape this viewpoint through the history and try to evaluate the importance of
natural systems in urban areas and its relationship with humans (Spirn, 2011)
(Beatley, 2011). Therefore the thesis tries to rethink urban nature and its socioecological relationship with respect to urban stream and surface hydrological
processes.
Currently, the urban structure our cities are producing is so fragmented and
disassociated with the surrounding that it is socially, economically and
environmentally destructive at once. Consequently, urban stream syndrome is
the result of unawareness by urban communities. The thesis aims to conserve
urban stream before contaminated with urban stream syndrome. To do so, it
explores the stream landscape and its characteristics in order to create a
seamless public realm along the stream which helps to involve communities with
natural area.
