Research Article

Eco-Urban Approach for Foca Peninsula (Izmir, Turkey)

Volume: 23 Number: 2 August 16, 2021
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Eco-Urban Approach for Foca Peninsula (Izmir, Turkey)

Abstract

Foca Peninsula is an ecologically and culturally rich region, characterizing the Mediterranean landscape with its rural, urban, coastal areas and islands. It contains forest landscapes, archeological heritages and historical urban areas. This paper examines the potentials of the peninsula as a whole, for the suitability of eco-urban concept. The objectives of the eco-urban approach are: providing clean and efficient energy by using renewable energy resources, improving local economic development by encouraging agricultural activities, preventing emigration by holding the labor force inside the peninsula, increasing regional collaboration, creating a physically and culturally rich center. Considering the concept, this paper aims to create an ‘eco-urban’ that respects the natural system, provides sustainable and modern conditions. This research evaluates Foca Peninsula in the scales of 1/25.000, 1/10.000 and 1/5.000. In these scales, the paper reveals the visions, strategies, plans and designs. As of region analysis, transportation; demography; visual, survey and SWOT analyses were performed. As a result, this paper discusses the landscape planning and design outputs according to the eco-urban approach.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Ecology

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

August 16, 2021

Submission Date

March 31, 2021

Acceptance Date

August 8, 2021

Published in Issue

Year 2021 Volume: 23 Number: 2

APA
Koçan, N., & Balık, G. (2021). Eco-Urban Approach for Foca Peninsula (Izmir, Turkey). Bartın Orman Fakültesi Dergisi, 23(2), 465-476. https://doi.org/10.24011/barofd.906852
AMA
1.Koçan N, Balık G. Eco-Urban Approach for Foca Peninsula (Izmir, Turkey). Bartın Orman Fakültesi Dergisi. 2021;23(2):465-476. doi:10.24011/barofd.906852
Chicago
Koçan, Nurhan, and Gökhan Balık. 2021. “Eco-Urban Approach for Foca Peninsula (Izmir, Turkey)”. Bartın Orman Fakültesi Dergisi 23 (2): 465-76. https://doi.org/10.24011/barofd.906852.
EndNote
Koçan N, Balık G (August 1, 2021) Eco-Urban Approach for Foca Peninsula (Izmir, Turkey). Bartın Orman Fakültesi Dergisi 23 2 465–476.
IEEE
[1]N. Koçan and G. Balık, “Eco-Urban Approach for Foca Peninsula (Izmir, Turkey)”, Bartın Orman Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 465–476, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.24011/barofd.906852.
ISNAD
Koçan, Nurhan - Balık, Gökhan. “Eco-Urban Approach for Foca Peninsula (Izmir, Turkey)”. Bartın Orman Fakültesi Dergisi 23/2 (August 1, 2021): 465-476. https://doi.org/10.24011/barofd.906852.
JAMA
1.Koçan N, Balık G. Eco-Urban Approach for Foca Peninsula (Izmir, Turkey). Bartın Orman Fakültesi Dergisi. 2021;23:465–476.
MLA
Koçan, Nurhan, and Gökhan Balık. “Eco-Urban Approach for Foca Peninsula (Izmir, Turkey)”. Bartın Orman Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 23, no. 2, Aug. 2021, pp. 465-76, doi:10.24011/barofd.906852.
Vancouver
1.Nurhan Koçan, Gökhan Balık. Eco-Urban Approach for Foca Peninsula (Izmir, Turkey). Bartın Orman Fakültesi Dergisi. 2021 Aug. 1;23(2):465-76. doi:10.24011/barofd.906852

 

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