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The Impact of Tourism Planning on Land-Use/Land-Cover Changes in Kızkalesi Tourism Destination

Land, Jan 28, 2024

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY

Contemporary challenges of spatial planning in tourism destinations

The book entitled “Contemporary challenges of spatial planning in tourism destinations” compares ... more The book entitled “Contemporary challenges of spatial planning in tourism destinations” compares the different contexts for spatial planning and how they approach tourism-related issues in selected European countries, namely Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal and Turkey. Each chapter starts with a presentation of the overall profile of the investigated country. The chapters then consider the following contexts of spatial planning of tourism destinations: legal regulations of spatial planning, long-term strategy for spatial planning, public participation in spatial planning, and the main challenges of spatial planning of tourism destinations. The publication ends with an overarching discussion focusing on the various challenges that affect sustainable spatial planning of tourism destinations in the countries under consideration. The book was edited by Tomasz Napierała and Katarzyna Leśniewska-Napierała (both from University of Lodz), and Giancarlo Cotella (Politecnico di Torino). The pu...

METU TECHNOPARK Planning & Design Project

METU Faculty od Architecture, 2016

The Role of the Nation-State in Regional Development: An Evaluation Through Public Investments Between Years 1999-2009

Megaron

In the last 40 years, there have been significant changes in production systems and accumulation ... more In the last 40 years, there have been significant changes in production systems and accumulation regimes in response to neoliberal policies. This economic context has weakened the nation-state while increasing the importance of the regions. The basic aim of regional ...

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Geographica Socio-Oeconomica, 2016

Mersin is a relatively new city in Turkey. Although it only dates back to the first decades of th... more Mersin is a relatively new city in Turkey. Although it only dates back to the first decades of the 19 th century, it has experienced significant changes in its urban economic structure. Being established as a port city, Mersin has been a major gate for Anatolia and Middle-East. This character has been supported by construction of a new port in 1962 and introduction of new macroeconomic preferences towards export-oriented economic development in 1980, both of which not only have increased the number of foreign trade and logistics activities but also have enriched the urban economic structure with new economic activities. With the Persian Gulf Crisis in 1990 and the following embargo, however, there occurred drastic changes in local economic life of Mersin. Logistics activities started to lose their significance due to radical decreases in transactions with Middle-Eastern countries. In 2006, the first regional innovation strategy in Turkey was prepared as the end product of RIS-Mersin Project in order to change downward trends of local economy and trigger local development opportunities. The strategy depends on the idea that innovation is a key-factor for local development. The aim of this study is critical evaluation of this regional innovation strategy and its spatial dimension within the context of local development. Successes and failures of this strategy provide important lessons for other regions aiming to produce such strategies.

Journal of Planning, 2019

The purpose of this study is to reveal the breaking points which are effective in the emergence o... more The purpose of this study is to reveal the breaking points which are effective in the emergence of health inequalities by using the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale in Mersin province, Mezitli District. As the result of 1083 questionnaires in total applied to the population aged 18 years and over by considering neighborhood population, age group and gender it was observed that all the variables determining the social class status of the individuals have a determinative effect on the quality of life scale in terms of physical, psychological, social and environmental field scores. On the other hand, there is no direct effect of neighborhoods on quality of life scales. However, when neighborhoods are not considered to be homogeneous areas, spatial quality differences within the same neighborhood (easy access to health care services, adequate green space availability, adequate sheltering assets) affect quality of life scores. In addition, some housing conveniences (ownership of the house, the type of heating used in the house, the number of rooms in the house, the source of drinking water at home, the duration of use of the house) have an influence on the quality of life scores. Thus, the individual's class position influences the quality of life scores both directly and indirectly such as convenience of the home and environmental facilities.

Yeni Kalkınma Paradigmasında Öncelikler

Aydınlanma 1923, Apr 5, 2014

European Spatial Research and Policy

In recent decades, forced migration has become a globally salient issue for both developed and de... more In recent decades, forced migration has become a globally salient issue for both developed and developing countries. As a developing country, Turkey is a significant destination for forced migration, with more than 3.6 million Syrian immigrants. This study concentrates on the socio-spatial impacts of forced migration in Turkish cities where Syrian immigrants have been concentrated and aims to answer the question: “Does forced migration produce an urban crisis in such cities?” The study leads to a prescription about new qualities of urban planning for coping with the urban crisis through a resilience strategy.

Küreselleşme, Mekansal Planlama Yaklaşimlarindaki̇ Deği̇şme Ve Kamu Yarari

Son donemlerde, gundelik hayatin tum boyutlarinda onemli degismeler gerceklesmektedir. Bircok ara... more Son donemlerde, gundelik hayatin tum boyutlarinda onemli degismeler gerceklesmektedir. Bircok arastirmaciya gore, bu degismelerin temelinde bir makro surec olarak kuresellesme bulunmaktadir. Kuresellesme etkiledigi bu boyutlara bagli olarak mekansal yapilari da degistirmekte ve donusturmektedir. Bu donem icerisinde, ulus-devlet guc kaybetmekte, bolgeler ve kentler yeni ekonomik duzenin isleyisi icin onemli odaklar haline gelmektedir. Bu degisim sureci icerisinde, planlamanin mekansal sorunlari ele alma bicimleri de, kuresel baglamin piyasa mekanizmalarini planlamanin onune gecirme taleplerinden dogrudan etkilenmektedir. Bunun sonucunda, kentsel olcekte, sermayenin mekansal taleplerinin hayata gecirilmesini zorlastiran butuncul kent idealleri geri plana atilmakta ve kentsel yapilari etkileyen mekansal gelisme, ozellikle buyuk kentlerde, kuresel sermayenin finanse ettigi tekil kentsel projelere dayandirilmaktadir. Bu degisim, planlama mudahalesinin gerekcelendirilmesinde kullanilan en...

Athens Journal of Mediterranean Studies

In the year 1999, a high-intensity earthquake hit Turkey and caused massive damage and destructio... more In the year 1999, a high-intensity earthquake hit Turkey and caused massive damage and destruction. After this earthquake, the stakeholders of urban development realized the fact that the possibilities for such losses in Turkish cities are relatively high due to the low physical qualities of building stock. Depending on a broad consensus, urban regeneration appeared as the strongest option by replacing unqualified buildings with the qualified ones, which increased the numbers of both theoretical studies focusing on urban regeneration and urban regeneration projects. The dominance of urban regeneration on urban planning, however, does not mean that they are problem-free in Turkish case. There is a theoretical ambiguity about the definition, input-output, and processes of urban regeneration which causes certain problems related to the economic and social dimensions of cities. With reference to many cases, it can be easily said that the costs of these problems are more than the benefits of urban regeneration projects. In this respect, this study aims to concentrate on the problems of urban regeneration practices to understand whether urban regeneration projects create a kind of urban degeneration. In the first part, there are basic theoretical discussions about urban regeneration. The second part is about a historical description of urban regeneration in the Turkish context by focusing especially on the methods and priorities in different periods since they are important by understanding the ongoing processes of urban regeneration. The third part concentrates on the problems of urban regeneration with reference to its underestimated economic and social dimensions. The conclusion of the study aims to discuss the potential qualities of urban regeneration in Turkish context and to determine possible modifications in the processes, priorities, and principles of existing urban regeneration practices so that the possibility of urban degeneration could decrease.