UNDERSTANDING COMPLEX URBAN SYSTEMS WITH FRACTALS: GERMİR
Abstract
Self-developed settlements in many ways are the greatest exemplars of complex systems. They build from the bottom up, they grow organically, and they look as through they are created by nature in terms of the way their networks deliver energy to their parts. In this process that can be defined as self-development, the relationships in the lower scale are realized strongly and they construct the unity of urban system through better progress. Thus, according to changing conditions in time, by adapting the environment, space fractals appear along with a process of evolution. Since responding problems by interacting with the system is more important than its geometry, it reveals complex geometries unexplainable through basic Euclid geometry. Therefore, despite having no simple order of geometry or relationship, their acceptance by the users by interacting with them enables it to contribute the richness of life. In order to comprehend the spatial features, level of complexity and the structure of this dynamic formation through time, it is possible to utilize fractal geometry which is a complex and computational approach.
In this respect, fractal dimension computations
performed specifically to Germir settlement revealed that urban spaces in
different plans have high fractal levels supporting the fact that self-developing
settlements are complex systems. This
shows that the texture evolving under effect of a variety of cultures and rich
natural environment has a high level of complexity.
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Details
Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Özlem Atak Doğan
ERCİYES ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Türkiye
Gülen Çağdaş
İSTANBUL TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Türkiye
Publication Date
December 22, 2017
Submission Date
September 14, 2017
Acceptance Date
September 30, 2017
Published in Issue
Year 2017 Volume: 31 Number: 43