Examining the age-friendly urban parks' criterions of Sari-Iran

摘要

Parallel to aging growth, urbanism development and inefficiency of the urban spaces for the aged the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the age-friendly city concept at 2005, according which hundreds of cities have organized or are revitalizing. At the same scope and because of urban parks importance as one of the urban spaces desirability, this study is done by the purpose of examining age-friendly urban parks criterions in Sari-the capital of a northern province in Iran with an aging rate of more than the whole country-. According to the goal, this research is a review-comparative. The study emphasizes on 3 main parameters of safety-security& clean environment in agefriendly urban parks the same as the age-friendly cities. According to the proposed checklist Sari`s urban parks are 35% age-friendly and best at environmental sanitation while worst at safety.