Original Articles
Zahra Barzegar and Seyyede Ela
Abstract
Constructing in the cities can be considered as an important part of environment. It affects the environment as well as deconstructing it, destroying the nature, and creating an unsafe and infected environment for people. Applying an ecological approach and choosing Mansourabad gardens located in Shiraz, Iran, this article examined the urbanization, its growth and its effects on the destruction of urban gardens. The results indicated that, with a population growth of about 5.9% between 1996 and 2011, more than 124 hectares of gardens and over 24 hectares of agricultural lands destroyed in MansourAbad region to be able to increase about 42 hectares of lands to urban construction. Furthermore, the amount of pollution caused by urban space and the amount of oxygen lost due to the destruction of gardens were estimated