SUSTAINABLE URBAN MANAGEMENT IN BURSA

Year 2019, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 74 - 95, 30.06.2019

Ezgi Kırtorun , Feza Karaer

Abstract

The concept of sustainable city is to create habitable cities in today and in the future and to create people-oriented cities.Bursa is the most advanced fifth city in economic terms of Turkey.Agriculture, industry, trade and tourism activities are carried out and at the same time composes  wealth in terms of mining.Increasing urban population, industrialization, lack of housing and infrastructure, difficulty in accessing work, goods and services, unemployment, inequality and misuse of natural resources negatively affect urban sustainability.In order to serve the purpose of urban sustainability, policies need to be determined and the central government should act together with local administrators, urban planners, academics, civil society organizations and the public.In this study; Air quality measurements, noise complaints, solid waste quantity and composition, land use and greenhouse gas inventories in Bursa were examined.For the purpose of the study, the parameter changes have been tried to be explained by tables and graphs according to the years and suggestions for negative changes in the accepted parameters of sustainability indicators have been developed.

Keywords

City, City management, Management, Sustainable city

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