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Relevance Between Permaculture and Urban Open and Green Spaces in the Context of Responsible Production and Consumption
Abstract
Ongoing rapid population growth, migration and urbanization in cities threaten the natural equilibrium as much as reveal poor lifestyles and facility areas associating weak interactions with nature. In this process; inefficient utilization of resources and excessive consumption disrupt the ecosystems where the cities are located. The destruction of the environment and converting agricultural lands into built environs decrease the production and paradoxically increase dependency on other regions and cause many other problems from carbon emissions to the local and global scales of climate change. But this progress of situation has transformed cities into consuming and waste producing built environments in terms of nature and resources. Against these problems in recent years, ecological system based approaches and methods considering nature's cycle are being developed and discussed, with the aim of designing healthier settlements where adverse effects are reduced, resources are consciously and productively assessed. In terms of urban design, permaculture is one of the increasingly important approaches that aim to develop principles in order to sustain human life harmonious with nature. This research; driven by the need for efficient, productive and sustainable design of open and green spaces that provide the continuity of nature in cities and meet the needs of communities at different scales aims to bring forth the contributions to urban ecology, community and local governments by the permaculture point of view to the agenda. Inadequate design in terms of sustainability, obscuring the functions and properties of plant species, irrigation and drainage systems leading to leakage in terms of energy and resource utilization and lack of links between design elements has become major reasons to on urban open and green areas in this article. Accordingly, the article primarily identifies and focuses on the consumption-oriented design and other issues in the organization of urban open and green spaces. In the context of research, the achievements of efficient and effective design of urban open and green spaces within the framework of permaculture’s responsible production and consumption perspective are evaluated. Possible achievements stated at the conclusion are; providing appropriate design to the natural characteristics of a place without consuming vital resources such as water, energy where wastes are utilized in the cycle of the system that will support the resistance of cities against probable disaster and climate change, meanwhile increasing community awareness, training, unification and create job opportunities.
Kentsel Açık ve Yeşil Alan Ekolojik Tasarım Permakültür Permakültür İlkeleri Permakültür Örnekleri
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Engineering |
Journal Section | Research Articles |
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Publication Date | June 25, 2018 |
Submission Date | December 23, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2018 Volume: 3 Issue: 1 |