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Resilient Cities From Geodesign Perspective:
The Case of Şanlıurfa Province

According to Debnath et al. (2022), the increasing frequency of extreme
events, uncertainty and pressure faced by society clearly reveals the need
for more resilient planning. Data-powered participatory methods such as
Geodesign hold great promise in supporting strategic planning to make our
cities and regions more resilient. In this context, their studies showed that
they contributed too much to perceive in-depth the Geodesign applications
in resilience planning by means of a systematic review of 487 studies selected
from various bibliographic databases. However, a detailed analysis of the
relevant 59 Geodesign case studies displayed that there is a strong emphasis
on disaster risk reduction and management activities. They suggested, in their
study, explicitly to integrate computational and collaborative approaches
into the Geodesign methodology to help resilient urban planning efforts in
the future. They also stated that the Geodesign approach can provide a
comprehensive framework that brings together communities, decision-makers
and experts to help plan more resilient cities.
Another disadvantage of current planning methods is that most people are
reluctant to read hundreds of report pages and have difficulty reading and
understanding 2D maps correctly. This applies not only to the general public,
who are excluded from the planning process, but also to many of the decision-
makers in local authorities. Therefore, 3D models should not be considered
only as trendy words. The significant acceptance of 3D models and especially
the models such as the ones produced by the Turkish Ministry of Environment,
Urbanization and Climate Change in LOD3 constitutes a sufficient indicator.
Because the human brain stores information about objects in 3D instead of
2D. If you are working in a 3-dimensional environment, it is much easier to
remember this information. Imagining a banana can be given as an example
for this. Human beings do not use their brain for storing textual information
such as “banana” or a 2-dimensional image format. Instead, when thinking
about this fruit, he stores a 3-dimensional object that looks like a banana
(Hawkings and Dawkins, 2021). Therefore, even non-experts, when faced with
a 3D model image of a 10-storey building, will be able to easily imagine in
their minds how it will actually look. On the other hand, if a city or a region is
considered rather than a single building, the situation will become much more
complicated. Given these conditions, it is not surprising that in many cases
urban planning cannot be considered as a very efficient process. Fortunately,
new developments in the field of Geomatics, such as 3D city models, virtual
reality (VR) and Geodesign, offer opportunities to take urban planning to the
next level.

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