Author(s)

Ali Akbar Taghvaee¹, Maryam Kamyar², Amir Moradi^1*

¹Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
²Department of Architecture and Art Studies, Iranian Encyclopedia Compiling Foundation (IECF), Tehran, Iran.

During initial evolution of human residences, the balance between human and nature was determined by nature and the relationship between human and nature was one-way. In the first stages of urbanization, humans did not have the required equipment for intervening in nature and upset the balance in it. Even after that, they would refrain from widely modification and destroying of nature when they became narrowly artisan. This balance was unhurt for a long time in history until the 19th century, where this relationship was broken by the rapid advancement of technology and as a result the increase in urbanization. Accordingly, presenting a model in order to preserve the relationship between human and nature in the city seems to be of a great significance. This research is carried out by a qualitative method in a descriptive-analytic form has reached a model through combining naturism, moralism, humanism and phenomenology as a novel approach in the relationship between human and nature in the city with an emphasis on the philosophical concept of nature and study of the types of the relationship between human, nature and city, nature during history and the current condition of nature in the cities.

Human, City, Nature

Taghvaee, A. , Kamyar, M. and Moradi, A. (2017) Human, Nature, City: From Oblivion to Review. Open Journal of Ecology, 7, 433-446. doi: 10.4236/oje.2017.77030.