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Designing Resilient Cities: Application
Guide Seeking, The Case Of İzmir Torbalı

access to health. However, when the service scope in the north and northeast
of the study case was evaluated, there seems to be an obviously high level of
insufficiency. This might be because industrial and non-residential urban work
areas inhabit the area while the residential units in the area are relatively fewer.
Muratbey, Ertuğrul, Cumhuriyet, Atatürk, Tepeköy, Alpkent, Mustafa Kemal
Atatürk, Çapak, Çaybaşı, Karşıyaka, Yemişlik neighborhoods were detected as
the weakest areas in terms of access to health services (Map 4).

Map 4: Access to Health (Original Study)
Based on the infrastructure
areas emphasized by Spatial Plans
Construction Regulations, there are a
total of 3 outdoor and green categories
in Torbalı district. These are recreation
areas, district sport area, playgrounds,
and park area. It was also detected that
the settlement is insufficient in terms of
green area per person. The scarcity of
green areas in the city leads to issues
at a neighbourhood and urban scale
and increases vulnerability in terms of
urban high temperatures (Map 5).
When the outdoor and green area
Map 4: Access to Health (Original Study)
systems are evaluated, insufficiencies
and limited access were detected in the Torbalı, Muratbey, Ertuğrul, Cumhuriyet,
Atatürk, Tepeköy, Alpkent, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Çapak, Çaybaşı, Karşıyaka ve

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