Fatih Terzi

Istanbul Technical University · Department of Urban and Regional Planning

This study aims to evaluate the impact of urban spatial expansion on the landscape patterns of coastal cities in Türkiye through the use of spatio-temporal indices. To this end, temporal samples covering a period of approximately 30 years (1986–2000 and 2000–2015) were analyzed for six selected coastal cities in Türkiye. The urban spatial growth pa...

Purpose As an important indicator of the quality of life of individuals, residential environments are continuing to evolve, due to the rapidly changing production–consumption relations. However, in this evolving process, the effect of the differentiated residential environments on the individuals' residential satisfaction remains unclear. This pape...

One of the key issues of the urban planning agenda is how urban density be decided in the spatial configurations of future neighbourhoods to overcome complex challenges such as urban warming. This paper aims to reconsider urban density as a spatial planning instrument to develop effective densification policies, planning and design strategies in te...

According to the Index of Risk Management-INFORM 2020 Report, Turkey was included in the group of “high-risk” countries in terms of humanitarian crises and disasters with an index score of 5.0 in 2019. In statistics related to the damage caused by disasters, it is known that natural disasters cause a 3% loss in Turkey's gross national product every...

The COVID-19 pandemic has created radical changes in all aspects of daily life associated with public space. This paper aims to ascertain the effect of COVID-19 on the use of leisure-related public spaces in Turkey. This study investigates how public space usage differs for various socio-demographic groups and how information and communication tech...

Stations on the metro system are important transportation hubs that handle a large number of the daily trip. Through the metro stations that facilitate pedestrian mobility and serve as a magnet for businesses, public transportation systems have the potential to alter the character of a community depending on the circumstances. Using location-based...

This study aims to understand the relationship between social structure and morphological character based on a case area from Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey considering several independent (cultural diversity, family type, income level, ownership status) and dependent (land use type, land cover, building type, building layout, settlement type, settlemen...

The main objective of the paper is to understand the spatial behavior and structure of coastal cities based on their socioeconomic development levels quantitatively. The geospatial metrics were used to describe the urban growth patterns in cities of İzmir, Kocaeli, Antalya, Tekirdağ, Mersin, Samsun, Çanakkale, Giresun, and Sinop in Turkey. The land...

Urban heat islands, one of the fundamental anthropogenic impacts on local climates, have been a growing concern especially for high-density urban areas such as Istanbul. This paper outlines the use of a supervised machine learning technique to understand the effects of the urban fabric on surface urban heat island (SUHI) formation in Istanbul, and...

This study aims to reveal the relationship between the social structure and urban pattern in a specified urban area by means of the socio-spatial dialectic. To understand the circumstances behind this dichotomy, analyses were conducted on two intertwined subjects - social structure and morphology - as part of a case study of the historical core of...

Yirmi birinci yüzyılda, dünyadaki şehirler büyüyen ve çeşitli nüfusa, sürekli değişen ekonomik koşullara, yeni teknolojilere ve değişen bir iklime cevap verme sorumluluğu ile karşı karşıyadır. Güncel planlama süreçlerinin yerel ihtiyaçlara cevap verememesi ve geleneksel kent planlamasının yukarıdan aşağıya (top-down) hiyerarşik modelinden uzaklaşma...

With the rapid developments in internet and communication technologies, activities take within the city create a reflection in virtual environments and these traces make visible the relation ties of the city’s dynamic structure. The data generated by mobile devices that take part in everyday life and become integrated with the user’s activities giv...

Urban growth patterns are a reflection of how urbanization is affected by physical geography as well as by the economic, social, and natural factors of individual cities. Therefore, an analysis of any urban growth pattern triggered by these factors by using measurable variables can make a significant contribution towards the determination of future...

In the Information Age, it is becoming crucial to understand the socio-technological factors and their possible outcomes so as to fulfill the upcoming spatial needs of the society. Thus, it is aimed to put forward how socio-spatiality is changing along with the developments in new information and communication technologies (nICTs) in the twenty-fir...

The decline in ecosystem services (ES) across the world is mostly associated with land use change, which is the basic outcome of ecosystem degradation. The changes associated with land use development often negatively impact ecosystems to sustain their services. The lack of capability of contemporary land suitability (overlay) analysis on ES-based...

Changes relating to the development of land use often negatively impact on ecosystem services (ES), which in turn impairs the ability of ecosystems to sustain such services. The assessment of land suitability is a critical step in land use planning, but it may have some shortcomings and may fail to represent the diversity of ES-related features of...

The growing complexity of urban development has required the development of new and more capable strategies. In addition, there are demands for an enhanced role in urban planning from an increasingly powerful citizenry. Since current public participation methods are ineffective at gathering useful information regarding sustainable urban development...

Urban growth patterns are a reflection of how urbanization is affected by physical geography as well as by the economic, social, and natural factors of individual cities. Therefore, an analysis of any urban growth pattern triggered by these factors by using measurable variables can make a significant contribution towards the determination of future...

This study proposes a quantitative assessment method to ascertain urban square potential at 12 gates of the historic city wall where different typologies, characteristics and periodic features are observed in Fatih district of Istanbul. The quantitative assessment method is based upon a series of indexes including 7 factors in total consisting of 3...

Geleceğin Kentini Tasarlamak: Akıllı Kentler, Geleceğin Toplumu ve Kentsel Tasarım Designing the City of the Future: Smart Cities, Future Society and Urban Design

Co-Opinion Zirvesi/Co-Opinion Summit, 2019 Invited Speaker Co-Opinion Zirvesi, Davetli Konuşmacı, 2019 Davetli Konuşmacı

Ecologically and socio-economically beneficial to cities, and covering a large fragment of land use pattern in developed countries, the green areas are under risk of zoning for building due to rapid and unplanned urbanization, policies aiming at rent and non-applicable zoning ordinances. Sufficiency of active green areas is validated with the stand...

Purpose Residential satisfaction can be viewed as a part of life satisfaction. There are many studies related to the relationship between residents’ satisfaction with their environments and the quality of those environments. The purpose of this paper is to examine how this satisfaction differs according to the type of residential environment. Desi...

In the process of urbanization, protection of ecosystems and ensuring the continuity of the services they provide are very important in terms of the functionality of life support systems. Otherwise, degradation in ecosystems can have negative consequences for different dimensions, such as biodiversity decline, over-consumption of resources and clim...

The micro-level urban morphology of large cities in the Middle East and North Africa and southeastern Europe has not been thoroughly investigated, and its transformation during the past decades has remained less-studied. Hence, this study is meant to partially explain urban morphology of Istanbul, Cairo, and Tehran, three megacities of the region b...

Ecologically and socio-economically beneficial to cities, and covering a large fragment of land use pattern in developed countries, the green areas are under risk of zoning for building due to rapid and unplanned urbanization, policies aiming at rent and non-applicable zoning ordinances. Sufficiency of active green areas is validated with the stand...

In this study, we examine and evaluate local knowledge to develop an integrated participatory model for spatial planning. We used participatory approaches in Düzce province to enhance risk communication, and to obtain the local point of view related to natural hazards and vulnerabilities through collaborative workshop techniques. We integrated mult...

This study aims to develop an integrated spatial planning methodology with a participatory planning approach for building resilient settlements against complex ecological risk factors. Düzce Province is selected as a case study because of its complex ecological characteristics as witnessed many times in past. The methodology consists of four phases...

In today's world geography, the migration from rural area to urban areas continues and the increasing urban population causes vertical and horizontal urban growth. Many factors, such as spatial growth of cities due to population growth, orientation of high level income group towards outskirts of cities, large scale mass housing projects, and higher...

Spatial planning practices, as published in the Regulations for the Preparation of Spatial Plans promulgated by the Official Newspaper Issue No. 29030 dated 04.06.2014, involve —in an hierarchal order— preparation of Spatial Strategic Plans, Environmental Master Plans, Master Plans, and Implementation Plans. In the main section of this regulation i...

Davetli Konuşmacı, Marmara Belediyeler Birliği Invited Speaker, Marmara Municipalites Union

Within the framework of TÜBİTAK (115K475) project, an integrated assessment model is developed for the risk mitigation and spatial planning processes to reduce environmental and socioeconomic losses based on natural vulnerability and hazard data such as earthquake, landslide, erosion and flood. Both geological and ecological data are not evaluated...

Önemli ölçüde kentleşmeye bağlı arazi kullanımı/arazi örtüsü değişiminin doğal sonucu olan ekosistemlerdeki niteliksizleşme, biyolojik çeşitliliğin ve ekosistem servisleri(ES)nin dünya genelinde giderek azalmasına yol açmaktadır. Ekosistem işlevleri sonucu doğrudan ya da dolaylı olarak insan tarafından sağlanan faydalar, süreçler ve ürünler olarak...

Ecosystems have a vital importance for all living since they are providers of life support systems. Degradation of the ecosystems resulted in destruction of biodiversity, excessive consumption of resources, contaminating water resources, rising up sea level, and climate change. In the last decades, degradation of ecosystem has been received growing...

Son beş yıldır İstanbul'un ilçe belediyeleri tarafından desteklenen İTÜ, İstanbul Kalkınma Ajansı ve Marmara Belediyeler Birliği tarafından koordine edilen afet risk yönetimi planlaması ve geliştirilmesine yönelik dört proje yürütülmüştür. Bu çalışmalarda, geleneksel planlama anlayışı yerine doğal ve yapılaşmış çevrenin çoklu-tehlike verilerine day...

The present study aims to produce flood inundation mapsofdifferent recurrent periods oftheMeric (Maritza) and Tundja(Tundzha)rivers in the area of Edirne city, Turkey. The case study area situates in the intersection point of the Meric, Tundja and Arda rivers, which are at the same time transboundary water channels that run through the territories...

Bu çalışmada, İstanbul'un farklı tarihi ve kültürel miras özelliklerinin görüldüğü Fatih, Üsküdar ve Eyüp ilçelerinde farklı tipolojik, karakteristik ve dönemsel özellik gösteren bölgelerde (46 bölge) kentsel meydan potansiyelinin nasıl tespit edileceğine yönelik bir sayısal değerlendirme yöntemi önerilmektedir. Ortaya konan sayısal değerlendirme y...

Comprehensive disaster management requires the consideration of all hazards and impacts that may occur in case of a disaster or an emergency for mitigation and prevention to minimize losses and damages. Integrated disaster management include preparation (planning, exercise/training, risk communication, logistics, community volunteer response teams...

This paper presents scenario-based modelling of urban land use which stem from interactions of the urban functions of Sakarya, one of the most important city for agricultural production and a vulnerable region in terms of natural resources and seismicity in Turkey. The purpose of the paper is to estimate the future land use pattern of Sakarya and d...

Residents’ perception of cultural activities is an important aspect of quality of life. This paper explores the association between the residents’ perception of quality of life and their attendance in cultural activities. Firstly, we investigate the effect of the spatial distribution of existing cultural facilities on the level of attendance to cul...

21.yüzyıl dünyasındaki en önemli sorunların başında küresel anlamda ortaya çıkan çevre kirliliği ve küresel iklim değişiklikleri gelmektedir. Küresel iklim değişiklikleri ve buna bağlı olarak ortaya çıkan seller, taşkınlar, fırtına ve kasırga hasarları, orman yangınları, kuraklık ve çölleşme gibi sorunlar yaşam alanlarımızı oldukça önemli ölçüde te...

Investment in education is considered important for economic growth and poverty alleviation. In many developed and developing countries families contribute privately to the education of their children as a result of continuously shrinking public budgets. Also, in Istanbul private primary schools were supported by the government in order to answer t...

Urban sprawl is one of the major issues regarding sustainable urban development. In response to concerns about sprawl, compact development strategies have been proposed to promote sustainable development. However, a compact development approach needs to pay attention to the crucial question of commercial profitability. The aim of this article is to...

This chapter presents an overview of a study examining the quality of urban life in the Istanbul metropolitan area. The primary source of information was a household survey conducted as part of the strategic planning process undertaken by the Greater Istanbul Municipality. The specific goal of the study was to inform government officials and planne...

A wide variety of health-care systems, ranging from the traditional private medical practice to medical care services, is organized by the government in Turkey. In the 1990s, as a result of privatization movement at the international level, the Turkish Government took the decision to financially support the establishment of new private health-care...

During the last decade, there has been a rapid increase in the research literature dealing with the measurement of urban sprawl. Density gradients, sprawl indexes, and certain simulation techniques are some of the quantitative measures that have been used in previous studies. Fractal analysis has also been applied in describing urban areas and a fr...

Urban spatial structure is increasingly characterized by decentralization, dispersion, concentration, and multiple centers. In Istanbul, dual development processes have been observed in the course of time. The first process is continuous urban expansion with low density development which was triggered mainly by squatter settlements at the periphery...

Sprawling urban development is one of the major issues that mainly refer to the extent of urbanization. Less urban sprawl and more compact residential development have been viewed as important components of the environmental agenda. In the major cities of developing countries like Istanbul, where the population is over 12 millions, urban sprawl thr...

Over the last decade, there has been a rapid increase in the amount of literature on the measurement of urban sprawl. Density gradients, sprawl indexes which are based on a series of measurable indicators and certain simulation techniques are some quantitative approaches used in previous studies. Recently, fractal analysis has been used in analyzin...