An investigation of urban development with geographical information systems: 100-year change of Sivas City, Turkey

Abstract

One of the most important duties of urbanism is to meet the basic needs of people. The need for shelter takes a significant place among the basic needs of people. Urban populations, which are increasing very rapidly nowadays, have made urban development a non-negligible situation. Urban planning should be done by ensuring urban development and without losing the city identity, and a regular development strategy should be adopted according to objective criteria in order to manage the available resources correctly. In this study, the 100-year urban development of Sivas city center was examined with the Geographical Information System (GIS) by considering historic buildings and population projection, and the relationship between housing in the city in this process and implementary zoning plans was investigated.

Keywords

• Sivas
• GIS
• Urban Development
• Urbanization
• Temporal analysis

Thanks

The authors would like to thank Sivas Municipality for providing the data needed in this study.

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