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Gizem Erdoğan - Serdar Simsar - Sinem Dudu Sakal - Ömer Kor - Gamze Kardoğan
Ceren Parıltı - Yaşar Doğukan Kaya - Begüm Gündoğdu

Introduction
Economic vulnerabilities, infrastructure insufficiencies due to uncontrolled
population, and the increase in carbon emissions and carbon footprint triggers
climate change and leads to serious damage on the global ecosystem. The
negative effects of climate change and the vulnerable planning of the systems
that make up cities bring about serious and largely irreversible problems
such as interruptions in the food chain, decrease in biodiversity, increase in
urban heat island effect, and the loss of water sources. Densely populated
urban areas get affected by climate change more due to their intense service
activities. Issues that are neglected or not given enough attention during
urban planning and design processes affect the life quality of urban residents
negatively. Every chain is as strong as its weakest link. The weaknesses in urban
system turn into urban threats over time. To need to prevent these threats,
balance urban life quality, maintain the preservation-use balance between
natural and built environment, and take measures against the weaknesses of
urban systems make resilient city concept in today’s plans current as well as
important.
This study depends on the hypothesis that it is possible to plan a resilient
city using urban planning tools. To this end, resilient city criteria emerging from
the literature review, master plan and spatial plan construction regulations are
applied to Torbali district to create a vision of a city that is resilient against
earthquakes and urban heat waves. The first stage of the study involves
literature review (Graph 1). At this stage, the definitions of resilient city, whose
conceptual framework is presented above, the requirements of earthquake
centered resilient cities and heat resistance cities were compiled and a set of
indicators was created.

165 Journal of Environment, Urbanization and Climate