The use and utilization areas of geographic information system (GIS) increase every day due to both enabling easiness in storing, updating, grouping, analyzing, correlating, and mapping of data about evaluation factors in planning studies and having quite low error margin depending on the accuracy of data stored. In fact, GIS is also used both in visualization and in various analyses in planning tourism terrains. In this study, the effectiveness of GIS on holistic evaluation of natural and cultural resources in planning tourism terrains was analyzed. Natural and cultural resources in Kayseri Yahyalı were quantified by using ArcGIS 9.3 software from GIS software; data were analyzed and potential tourism and recreation terrains, level of suitability, and rate of coverage were determined. As a result of the analyses, it was determined that 11.847 ha area (6,53%) was quite suitable for such kind of activities, 103.010 ha (56,77%) was suitable, 39.278 ha (21,65%) was less suitable, and 27.314 ha area (15,05%) was not suitable. In the next stage, landscape properties which are suitable for tourism and recreation were evaluated and landscape types were classified in the sense of their tourist attraction. It was determined that the water resources and valley landscapes were the basic sources of the tourism and recreation activities of Yahyalı, and it was determined that the landscape of the forest and mountain was important for variety of the tourism and recreation activities of Yahyalı.

Oyun, çocuğun fiziksel gelişiminin yanı sıra arkadaşlık ilişkileri kurarak sosyalleşmesini ve duygusal gelişimini sağlayan önemli bir faktördür. Nüfusun ve dolayısıyla yapılaşmanın günümüzdeki kadar yoğun olmadığı dönemlerde çocuklar zamanlarının çoğunu evlerinin bahçesinde ve sokakta oyun oynayarak geçirirken günümüzde evin içine hapsolmuş durumda giderek yalnızlaşmaktadırlar. Bu nedenle kentlerde yaşayan çocukların fiziksel ve ruhsal olarak sağlıklı gelişebilmesi ve doğaya özlemini giderebilmesi için kentsel açık-yeşil alan sistemleri içerisinde çocuk oyun alanlarının önemi gün geçtikçe artmaktadır. Çocuk oyun alanları planlanırken ve tasarlanırken çocukların güvenli bir ortamda gelişim özellikleri, çocukların ve onlara eşlik eden ebeveynlerinin ihtiyaçları göz önünde bulundurulmalıdır. Bu bağlamda yapılan bu araştırmada Nevşehir kenti çocuk oyun alanları peyzaj planlama ve peyzaj tasarım ilkeleri doğrultusunda incelenmiştir. Çocuk oyun alanlarının kent yeşil dokusu içerisinde nasıl konumlandırıldığı, hangi yaş grubuna hitap ettiği, hangi tür oyun ünitelerine yer verildiği, donatı elemanları, donatılarda ve zeminlerde kullanılan malzemeler ile bitkisel tasarımları yerinde gözlemlerle değerlendirilmiştir. Belirlenen eksiklikleri gidermeye ve ileriye yönelik tasarım ve planlama çalışmalarına katkı sağlamaya yönelik öneriler sunulmuştur.

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The pressure on natural areas is increasing day by day in urban areas which cannot cover the needs of the increasing population. The area usage plans being insufficient or the disobeying to such plans; the areas with ecological importance and fertile agricultural characteristics are being opened for industrial or residential use. The misuses of the areas bring with them many ecological problems. With this study, environmental problems and the future effects brought of the Erzurum Nato Highway which goes through the middle part of Erzurum Plain and right next to Erzurum Swamp Area wetland have been dealt with. The area has the status of being a National Wetland and is located on the migration routes of the birds with its "Important Natural Area" and "Important Birds Area" characteristics. As a result of the wrong policies in the area, and by considering only the economic and technical facilities, ruining the area which has such an biological importance by making a new road in it will have consequences like losing the wetland and the plain, which may not be compensated for many years or may not be possible to compensate at all. In this study, the ecological importance of the area is emphasized and the amount of the land that was lost with the making of new roads and the areas being opened for construction was determined with the satellite views. And some future plans are suggested by considering the protection-using balance in order to prevent the misuse and protect the ecological characteristics.