Create a cultural-city through landscape planning and design

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.