Create a cultural-city through landscape planning and design

Author: 
Dr. Nurhan Kocan

Foça Peninsula is an important area which have Mediterranean landscape with its natural and cultural potential in rural, urban, coastal areas and islands including archaeological riches; history, urban structure and tourism diversity. The main objectives of cultural-city approach are economic and local development by promoting agriculture; to prevent migration out with new job opportunities; to provide regional integrity; to create a quality living center having physical and cultural richness because this is most important and these potentials neglegted and not used correctly and enough so far. In this context; to define natural, cultural and historical potentials of the area and to act these with cultural-city approach; to produce effective and quick solutions and to ensure their implementation; to promote local development and cultural protection and to create conservation development zones have formed the basis of the vision. Foça Peninsula (İzmir) are evaluated in scales of 1/25.000, 1/10.000 and 1/5.000 within the planning studio. Urban design guides and landscape designs are then created accordingly. As of region analysis; land-use, transportation, demography, meteorology and SWOT analysis, visual analysis and survey studies have been performed. As a result; a tangible and feasible planning and management approach has been revealed through examples.

Paper No: 
2940