Mehdi Nilipour - Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Tabriz, Iran.
Leila Medghalchi - Assis tant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Tabriz, Iran.
Morteza Mirgholami - Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Tabriz, Iran.

Cultural planning, as a place-based approach, has been used in some cases, but it is less frequently used in urban parks. In this s tudy, an experimental inves tigation was conducted to explore how cultural planning can be used to identify the cultural resources of Fateh Garden, as one of the mos t popular parks in Karaj, and the officials and users' approach to its cultural resources to provide recommendations to improve Fateh Garden conditions. This s tudy was based on direct observations of components, activities, events, interviews with the park users and officials, and a focus group discussion. The results revealed that Fateh Garden acts as a thriving urban park with popular cultural resources. Based on the cultural resources of Fateh Garden and the use of creative methods, this s tudy has provided sugges tions for improving its situation. The results presented here may also facilitate improvements in other urban parks based on their cultural resources.

Cultural planning, cultural resources, Urban parks, Fateh Garden