Ecology-based planning approach for urban development areas: Tekirdağ example

In this thesis, in making land use decisions for an urban development area where urban-rural interaction is still observed in the example of Tekirdağ, it is aimed to make an ecology-based land use planning that takes ecological data into consideration. In this context, the hypothesis of the study are these "Land uses to be planned in urban development areas can be sustainable and ecologically environmentally sensitive" and "Environmental problems that increase day by day in cities can only be solved by planning approaches based on ecological concerns.". The method of the study consists of 4 main steps: In the first step, issues relating to research and the study area were determined, potential land use types and ecological criteria for them were presented. In the study, "Suitability Analysis" method was used to make the most appropriate land use decisions for the determined usage types. In the second step, criteria for usage types identified as protection, agriculture, meadow and pasture, forest, recreation, settlement and industrial areas; suitability values and coefficients obtained by sub-criteria were determined. In this direction, 27 literature was used and 17 criteria and 84 different sub-criteria were determined in the field of research. The maps prepared by evaluating the suitability values and suitability coefficients of the criteria are overlaid with the ecological planning method of McHarg (1969) named as "Landscape Evaluation for Various Uses-Overlay" (method of overlaying maps). Thus, potential area usage maps for each type of use have been obtained. In the third step, an ecology-based synthesis plan was created by overlaying potential area usage maps, analyzing together and evaluating the existing land uses. The results were compared with the zoning plan and urban transformation master plan prepared for the city and the decisions of the Great Plains Protection Area. After all; it has been observed that the areas for which the settlement decision has been made in the zoning plan and the master plan are not suitable, and the scope of the agricultural area borders taken under protection by declaring the Great Plain is insufficient. In the last step, it was pointed out that ecological landscape plans are necessary in order to make correct land use decisions and suggestions for planning were presented.