A research on planning of Hamsiköy-Zigana village route in former Trabzon-Gümüşhane state highway as a greenway

A Research on Planning of Hamsiköy-Zigana Village Route in Former Trabzon- Gümüşhane State Highway as a Greenway Although pressures and threats on natural resources are increasing, there are lots of projects for the conservation and sustainable use of these resources. One of the projects is the greenway, which are linear web of paths planned, designed and managed in a sustainable way for ecological, recreational, cultural, and esthetic usage of the area. The dissertation with and plans in different steps and different methodologies aims to create an alternative greenway with recreational, scenic, historical and cultural values in Hamsiköy-Zigana part of Trabzon-Gümüşhane former state highway. As a first step, Inventory Studies and Analyses were carried out to determine the cultural and natural values of the area. At the second step, Area Analyses Studies were carried out by public inquiries in Trabzon city center and village in the study area concluding that there was a need for the planning of the area. Later, depending on the results of suitability analyses for determining the suitability of greenway planning in the study area; recreational, scenery, historical-cultural and multifunctional status of the greenway having all these three functions at the same time were mapped using suitability rank in GIS by plan square technique. As a result, the plan squares having high suitability for the functions were dense in the determined study as old highway and neighborhood. In the whole area (4385,25 hectares); it is found that 598,00 ha of the area is ranked as