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INVESTIGATION OF URBAN GREEN AREAS
FROM THE FRAMEWORK OF SUSTAINABLE

URBANIZATION ON THE CASE OF AMASYA

Zeynep ÖZDEMİR - Merve ÖZKAYNAK

ABSTRACT
In the period from the 1980s to the present, it is seen that urban land use cannot be managed
effectively due to rapid urbanization and green areas are rapidly destroyed due to urban rent.
With the developing technology after industrialization, new developments in building materials
and construction techniques have resulted in high-density residential areas. Due to the fact that
the green areas are not planned in accordance with the zoning plan standards while designing
the residential areas, the ecology and micro-climate of the cities are gradually deteriorated,
resulting in problems such as environmental pollution. This situation threatens the sustainability
of cities and negatively affects leaving livable areas to future generations. With disasters such
as the Covid-19 pandemic, which has recently affected the whole world, we once again come
across how important it is to protect urban green spaces, which are one of the building blocks of
sustainable urbanization. In this context, starting from the problem that urban green spaces are
insufficient for sustainable urbanization, it aims to examine the city of Amasya in the sample.
In this paper, the settlement area in Amasya Center is divided into three regions according to
the spatial development periods: the historical city center, the post-1960 development area and
the post-1990 development area. In the study, the distribution of green area types in different
sizes and in different locations in the separated regions was examined, and the compliance of the
existing green areas with the per capita m2 standards was investigated. As a result, it has been
determined that the green areas in the neighborhood scale of the city of Amasya, which have
developed over the years, are below the planning standards. In addition, it has been determined
that it is faced with the problem of rapid destruction of natural areas with the pressure of
concretization. As a result, suggestions were made to increase the green space capacities, which
is one of the sustainable development goals of the cities, specific to the sample area.
Keywords: Amasya, Public Space, Urban Green Space, Planning Standards, Sustainable
Urbanization.

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi, Amasya Üniversitesi Mimarlık Fakültesi Şehir ve Bölge Planlama Bölümü
Mail: zeynep.ozdemir@amasya.edu.tr
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8412-9044

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi, Amasya Üniversitesi Mimarlık Fakültesi Mimarlık Bölümü
Mail: merve.ozkaynak@hotmail.com
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1423-6749
Makale Atıf Bilgisi: Özdemir, Z.-Özkaynak, M. (2023). “Kentsel Yeşil Alanları Sürdü-
rülebilir Kentleşme Üzerinden Okumak: Amasya Kenti Örneği”.
Çevre, Şehir ve İklim Dergisi. Yıl: 2. Sayı: 3. ss. 270-292.
Makale Türü: Araştırma
Geliş Tarihi: 17.11.2022
Kabul Tarihi: 13.12.2022
Yayın Tarihi: 31.01.2023
Yayın Sezonu: Ocak 2023
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