Evaluation of urban agriculture concept and applicability in terms of landscape architecture

Over the past years, with the rapid increase in urban populations all over the world, supporting the phenomenon of migration to cities and continuing to concentrate capital in cities, and in addition; ecological and political crises lead to endless waves of migration to cities. Due to the rapidly growing population density in the cities, urban dynamics are re-forming and some related problems are encountered. The uncontrolled consumption of natural resources in the urbanization process caused problems such as greenhouse effect and created increasingly harmful effects on natural life. Today, when natural resources are depleted and sustainability becomes important, food safety is seen as one of the most important problems in the future. Urban agriculture practices, ensure the creation of green areas and by providing economically efficient activity opportunities alongside protecting food security, become a part of urban sustainability The fact that urban agriculture is based on the concept of space, protecting biodiversity and providing sensitivity in terms of reducing the ecological footprint, being socially integrating, creates a great advantage in order to correct all the negative situations mentioned and to reach sustainable cities. When historical urban development processes are examined, it is seen that urban agriculture practices play a major role in the development of cities in order to increase the sustainability of cities and to establish urban rural connections. For this reason, landscape architects have responsibilities in terms of planning and design in order to hand down the urban agriculture practices the next generations. With the literature review in scope of the research, the concept and principles of urban agriculture have been studied from past to present and recommendations regarding the applicability interpreted in terms of landscape architecture and urban agriculture examined samples from the world and Turkey were presented. The aim of this study is research urban agriculture practices in terms of landscape architecture that can provide solutions to human health, environmental health, food safety, urban aesthetics, social and economic sustainability with the aim of creating an ecological solution to environmental problems caused by irregular urbanization. Within the scope of the study, the administrative contributions of the urban agricultural practices and the landscape architecture profession, their effects and contributions in planning were examined.