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FIGURE 1. Geometrical order of Persian gardens. From left to right and top to bottom: Gholshan Garden in Tabas, Eram Garden in Shiraz, Chehel Sotoun Garden in Isfahan, Ashraf gardens in Behshahr and Ardeshir II Garden-Palace in susa these garden plans are drawn by Claudia-Emma Farley-Dabis to show the orthogonality of Persian gardens and are based on : Mehdi Khansari, Minouch Yavari, and M. R. Moghtader, the Persian Garden: Echoes of Paradise (Washington, DC: Mage, 1998, pp: 42, 76, 98, 119, 142). © Shabnam Rahbar.
FIGURE 2. Circular pattern of Ecbatana. Source: Mahmoud Tavassoli, Urban Structure in Hot Arid Environments: Strategies for Sustainable Development (New York: Springer Cham, 2016, p. 20). © Springer Nature. Reproduced with permission.
FIGURE 3. The concept of Chahartaq. © Shabnam Rahbar.
FIGURE 4. The quadripartite structure of the center of garden. © Shabnam Rahbar.
FIGURE 5. The expression of takht in Falak-ol-Aflak castle in Khorramabad (left) and Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat in the Khuzestan province (right). These images are drawn by Claudia-Emma Farley-Dabis. © Shabnam Rahbar.
FIGURE 6. Takht-e Soleyman (left) and Firouzabad Palace Garden (right). These images are drawn by Claudia-Emma Farley-Dabis to show the contrast between the orderly space of the garden and the disorderly nature of its surroundings and are based on: Mehdi Khansari, Minouch Yavari, and M. R. Moghtader, op.Cit., pp. 46 and 55. © Shabnam Rahbar.
