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

Map 14: Transport Plan 1 (Original Study) Map 15: Transport Plan 2 (Original Study)
Within the framework of Spatial Plan Construction Regulations, it is required
to develop social build up areas for the potential population in 2042, and to
create build up areas that will meet the needs of the target population to
increase accessibility. To this end, the locations for the social build up areas
were chosen again. However, while deciding on the location choices, commonly
emphasized resilient criteria such as accessibility, standards per person, and
creating manageable neighborhood units were taken into consideration.

Urban green areas make important contributions to resilient cities, such as
capturing rainwater, capturing harmful gases, and cleaning the air, decreasing
the urban heat island effect, maintaining water cycle, and increasing
biodiversity. To increase the greenland per person and to decrease the effects
of urban heatwaves, the open and green circulation system is recommended.
In a resilient city, green areas bring about ecological as well as socio-cultural
benefits to urban residents. Thus, plans were made in search of an accessible,
sufficient, holistic sense of green system with interrelated units.
In alternative Plan 1, the green line aims to break the threshold created
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by highways and railways through travelling through the 1 degree roads,
combining with the parks and social build up areas on the way to increase
mobility in the vertical axis. Through creating rest areas with the disctance of
in every 20-25 minutes by foot, it was aimed to enable urban residents to live
in a green system. In both alternative plans, the aim is to revive and enrich 200
m of area around Fetret Creek with green line to prevent it from overflowing
(Map 16-17). During the study, it was admitted that conservation of creek
systems is essential for maintaining resilience against urban heat waves. Both

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