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Fred Barış Ernst - İbrahim Yenigün

When non-expert participants are faced with traditional plans, it turns
into a difficult process for them to communicate because they are not used
to reading these plans. These events lead to errors in communication or
great differences in the amount of influence between the parties. Different
presentation tools such as different perspectives and scale models are used
to solve this problem, but none of them can be as useful as virtual reality
(Sonesson et al., 2008).
In the light of this data, in the study; in particular, the earthquake and
flood disasters in Şanlıurfa were discussed and the application errors were
examined, and suggestions were developed for Geomatics-oriented city
planning. In line with these data, the current situation and how different
Geodesign projects were applied to the region were investigated. However,
it has been evaluated among the important expectations that it will direct
new researches in terms of creating cities that are resistant to disasters,
especially earthquakes and floods.

Material and Methodology

The province of Sanliurfa, which was chosen as the study area, is located
in the Southeastern Anatolia region and hosts many unique values, especially
the Göbeklitepe and Harran archaeological sites, which are among the
oldest finds in human history. Despite this, it is one of the poorest provinces
in terms of GDP /person, and the situation has become even worse due to
the migration movements experienced in recent years, regarding about half
a million Syrian refugees along with the unregistered ones. Accordingly, in
order to introduce a more efficient and effective planning procedure for the
region, projects using the Geodesign approach were conducted and the
data obtained were subsequently prepared as publications (Ernst et al., 2019;
Ernst et al., 2020). Some other projects are ongoing. In all these projects, the
Geodesign approach framework (Akpinar, 2014), described by Steinitz (2012)
and summarized in Figure 1, has been applied. The framework within the
scope of this approach defines methods and combines design methodologies
with GIS, allowing the use of existing tools in the form of cooperation without
requiring all stakeholders to have prior knowledge. Before going into the
details of this methodology, it will be adequate to say that in the first three
steps, the current situation of a project area is investigated, and in the last
three steps, scenarios for a better future are detailed.
In 2017, a new master plan was developed for the three thousand hectare
campus area of Harran University within the framework of the project entitled
“Creation of a 3-Dimensional Master Plan for the Osmanbey Campus Area of
Harran University According to Geodesign Principles” supported by the Harran

160 The Journal of Environment, Urban and Climate