Abstract
Public parks are places of recreational amenity which play vital role as urban green spaces for
improving quality of citizen's life whereas botanic gardens are the centers of education, research and
conservation of plants diversity. This paper has tried to appreciate Jillani Park, Lahore in view of elements of
botanic gardens. A checklist of public facilities and botanic garden's elements was developed for the park to
assess the need of improvement in characteristics of botanic gardens. Park provides range of public
facilities and has sufficient potential to attract its visitors for promotion of plant conservation but at the
moment no such activities are taken in consideration. Therefore, an improvement plan was proposed to
designate this park as first example of a Botanic-cum-Public Park in City Lahore which will help in promoting
and conserving native plant species.
LAILA SHAHZAD , AMIN-UL-HAQ KHAN, FAIZA SHARIF, ASMA MANSOOR, RABIYA NASIR. (2016) Identifying and Mapping the Elements of Botanic Garden in a Public Park: Case Study of Jillani Park, Lahore, Biologia – Journal of Biological Society of Pakistan, Volume 62 (I), Issue 1.
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