The education function of Elaziğ city

The function of education takes the first place among the basic functions that play role in the production of the city service, enlargement of it and expansion of the borders. The function of education has a role which prevails and directs the city development and fairly keeps the city alive. So, it is the dominant function of the city. The educational function of the city has a qualification that connects the city to the vicinity, the distant areas, the outside. The satisfaction of the most important service requirement affects the morphology and the texture of the city. The function of education has a role which formalize and converts.The function of education:1) With its existence, development and growth, way, accumulation and dispersion, it has a function that needs place, dispose and arrange the place.2) In that its central place, functional movement and big geographical environment, it has a functional character that go beyond place. Because it is effective on the near and far neighbourhood of the city, it is the function of the city that generate the main connection to the out of town and environment of it.It is unquestionable that the characterization of the field on which Elazığ is settled and expands, affects the whole urban life and transforms all kinds of natural and human environment features structurally. The distribution of population, settlement tissue, vertical and horizontal urbanization tendency, economical activities, transportation network, the characterizations of the place on which the city was founded are basic human activities that without being known it is impossible to produce projects. Good determination of the characteristics belong to natural environment should be at the top of the natural environment characteristics.While the function of education was under the sway of the natural environment conditions, the industrial revolution and the urbanization process that was lived after the revolution inverted the structure completely. The distribution of the population in the world changed in favour of cities. Specific improvements of industry, commerce and service industry in cities changed the other functions of cities. So, many settlement units which don?t have geologically and morphologically appropriate settlement conditions have expanded regardless of the physical environment conditions because of being on the intersection of transportation network, taking place in the centre of industry and service, etc.When the areas inside the educational function of Elazığ are constituted, as well as administrative, economical, political, technological, architectural dimensions; natural and human characteristics of the settlement place should be planned, both physical and antropogenic dimensions, selection of appropriate place and functional movement should be evaluated.