TY - JOUR TT - Urban Settlements of Turkey that Specialized in Manufacturing Functions AU - Bayar, Rüya AU - Yüceşahin M., Murat AU - Özgür, E.murat PY - 2003 DA - August DO - 10.1501/Cogbil_0000000037 JF - Coğrafi Bilimler Dergisi JO - CBD PB - Ankara Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 1303-5851 SP - 1 EP - 12 VL - 1 IS - 2 KW - İmalât şehirleri KW - fonksiyonel uzmanlaşma KW - Türkiye şehirleri KW - Nelson Yöntemi KW - şehir işlevleri N2 - In this contribution, by the Nelson Method, the cities and towns of Turkey that their functional specialization area is manufacturing are determined. And then, the changes occurred in these type of urban places; levels of specializations in manufacturing, spatial distributions and population sizes of them are treated for a period of 20 years, by the help of statistical data from State Institute of Statistics which concerned to the years of 1980 and 2000. In the whole of Turkey, when half of the 92 urban settlements that specialized in manufacturing were leaving of this identity in 2000, new manufacturing cities arose in place of them, then the figure reached to 119. Realized changes not only as numerical but also as spatial are closely related with weak industrialization on the whole of Turkey as well as the levels of specializations of these cities are well below. The number of manufacturer cities and towns decreased both in Mediterranean and Southeastern Anatolian Regions that already had small numbers of locations of this type, unchanged in Eastern Anatolian Region, and being most in Marmara Region, increased in Aegean, Central Anatolian and Black Sea Regions. Marmara and Aegean regions that had 42% of the cities and towns specialized in manufacturing functions in 1980 have been the more centralized areas of industrialization by raising their proportion to 55% in 2000. Eighty percent of urban settlements that manufacturing is a dominant function or one of the dominant functions are below 50.000 populations. The group of 20.000-50.000 populations is notable CR - DİE, (1983) Genel Nüfus Sayımı 1980. Nüfusun Ekonomik ve Sosyal Nitelikleri, Ankara. CR - DİE, (2002) Genel Nüfus Sayımı 2000. Nüfusun Ekonomik ve Sosyal Nitelikleri, Ankara. CR - Forstall,R.L. (1970) A new social and economic grouping of cities. The Municipal Year Book, 102-159. CR - Harris,C.D. (1943) A functional classification of cities in the United States. Geographical Review 33, 86-99. CR - Moser, C.A.- W.Scott (1961) British towns: a statistical study of their social and economic differences. Oliver and Boyd. Ltd. Edinburgh and London. CR - Nelson, H.J. (1955) A service classification of Amerikan cities. Economic Geography 31, 189-210. CR - Özgür, E.M. (1996) İl ve ilçe merkezlerimizin faal nüfusun ekonomik faaliyet kollarına dağılımı bakımından sınıflandırılması. Ankara Üniversitesi Türkiye Coğrafyası Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi Dergisi 5, 53-71. CR - Tunbul,M. (2000) Türkiye’deki şehirlerin fonksiyonel sınıflandırılması, DPT: Yay No: 2520, Ankara. CR - Tümertekin,E. (1965) Türkiye’deki şehirlerin fonksiyonel sınıflandırılması, , İstanbul Üniversitesi Coğrafya Enstitüsü Yay.No:43, İstanbul. CR - Tümertekin,E. (1973) Türkiye’de şehirleşme ve şehirsel fonksiyonlar, İstanbul Üniversitesi Coğrafya Enstitüsü Yay.No:72, İstanbul. CR - Webb J.W. (1959) Basic concepts in the analysis of small urban centers of Minnesota. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 49 (1), 55-72. UR - https://doi.org/10.1501/Cogbil_0000000037 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/691596 ER -