Monitoring urban growth on the European side of the Istanbul metropolitan area: A case study

Kaya, Ş.; Curran, Paul J.

doi:10.1016/j.jag.2005.05.002

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“…Substantial changes are taking place in the coastal landscape as a result of rapid urbanization. A series of environmental and resource problems have emerged owing to rapid urban development, including encroachment of agricultural land, land reclamation, silt deposition in rivers, and severe flooding (Kaya and Curran 2006). These problems have had a significant impact on sustainable development in Trabzon the largest city of northeastern Turkey.…”

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Monitoring the changing position of coastlines using aerial and satellite image data: an example from the eastern coast of Trabzon, Turkey

Sesli

Karslı

Çölkesen

et al. 2008

Environ Monit Assess

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Coastline mapping and coastline change detection are critical issues for safe navigation, coastal resource management, coastal environmental protection, and sustainable coastal development and planning. Changes in the shape of coastline may fundamentally affect the environment of the coastal zone. This may be caused by natural processes and/or human activities. Over the past 30 years, the coastal sites in Turkey have been under an intensive restraint associated with a population press due to the internal and external touristic demand. In addition, urbanization on the filled up areas, settlements, and the highways constructed to overcome the traffic problems and the other applications in the coastal region clearly confirm an intensive restraint. Aerial photos with medium spatial resolution and high resolution satellite imagery are ideal data sources for mapping coastal land use and monitoring their changes for a large area. This study introduces an efficient method to monitor coastline and coastal land use changes using time series aerial photos (1973 and 2002) and satellite imagery (2005) covering the same geographical area. Results show the effectiveness of the use of digital photogrammetry and remote sensing data on monitoring large area of coastal land use status. This study also showed that over 161 ha areas were filled up in the research area and along the coastal land 12.2 ha of coastal erosion is determined for the period of 1973 to 2005. Consequently, monitoring of coastal land use is thus necessary for coastal area planning in order to protecting the coastal areas from climate changes and other coastal processes.

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Monitoring the changing position of coastlines using aerial and satellite image data: an example from the eastern coast of Trabzon, Turkey

Sesli

Karslı

Çölkesen

et al. 2008

Environ Monit Assess

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“…They also try to find out the sources of pollutions. Kaya and Curan (2006) in their research aim at to quantify urban growth on the European side of Istanbul by using Landsat 5 TM images for 1987, 1992, 1997 and 2001. They monitored the differences in those periods and measured the changes in the urban areas between 1987 and 2001.…”

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Measuring the spatial impacts of urbanization on the surface water resource basins in Istanbul via remote sensing

Küçükmehmetoğlu

Geymen

2007

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Istanbul is one of the largest metropolitan cities in the World. The city has experienced rapid industrialization and urbanization in the second half of the twentieth century. Between 1950 and 2000, the city has grown by an average of 4.5% annually. Given the scale of the growth, neither local nor the central governments have shown capability of controlling the influx of migration, most of which settled illegally on public lands. Most of the settlements lack the basic sewerage facilities, and a significant portion of which are on the major water resource basins. As of today, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) not only has to cope with the infrastructure problems, but also has to find ways of solving the problem of illegal occupations of public lands and water resource basins. This paper presents the land use changes in the water resource basins providing water to the Istanbul Metropolitan Area. Using four consecutive Landsat images between 1990 and 2005, the changes in 12 different land use categories are obtained via overlay operations by GIS for water resource basins surrounding the City of Istanbul. It has been observed that the most critical land use changes are in the nearest basins to the city. The capability of Landsat and IKONOS images in determining the alterations in the macro form of the city are also discussed. Finally, possibility of utilization of new technologies in policy making regarding environmental management in Istanbul is discussed.

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“…During the 14-year period, forest and green areas decreased by 9,134 ha (12.13%) and the agricultural and bare soil class by 19,656 ha (24.79%). Due to existing vacant and low-price lands in water basin areas of Istanbul, 24% of total gated communities which were constructed between 2000 and 2010 are located in water basin areas (Kaya & Curran, 2006;Berköz & Tepe, 2013). Furthermore, gated communities reflect larger socio-economic issues the wish to imitate Western way of life, regarded as status symbol (Suarez, 2011).…”

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Development of the Urban Periphery and Issues Related to Urban Landscape Due to Gated Communities

Aksoylu¹

2015

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Due to the industrialisation and rapid urbanisation after 1950's, housing demand has increased together with an insufficient housing production to meet the need in Turkey. As a consequence of the large deficit between the annual housing demand and supply, squatter housing construction was the major means for shelter of low income families who can not have their place in the housing market as buyers. Squatter houses are located either on the peripheries of the cities or mostly outside of the urban boundaries on public land or illegally subdivided land by creating many physical, social and environmental problems. After 1990's, depending on the globalisation wind and neo-liberal policies that enriched the new elites who have new life styles, the housing capital focused on these group. After 1999 earthquake in Turkey, the fear of possible earthquake has also changed the housing preference as from the high-rise apartment buildings to the lower detached houses. As a consequence of this supply-demand chain, the private housing investment was directed to the gated communities which are isolated settlements with restricted access, so that public spaces are privatised or their use is prohibited or controlled on the edge of the metropoliten cities. These settlements also have physical and social problems. This paper will analyze the change of urban periphery, location and relation with the natural thresholds and the main transportation system of these settlements of Turkey in the light of literature review and some development plans and interview with real estate developers and users.

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Monitoring urban growth on the European side of the Istanbul metropolitan area: A case study

Cited by 64 publications

References 8 publications

Monitoring the changing position of coastlines using aerial and satellite image data: an example from the eastern coast of Trabzon, Turkey

Monitoring the changing position of coastlines using aerial and satellite image data: an example from the eastern coast of Trabzon, Turkey

Measuring the spatial impacts of urbanization on the surface water resource basins in Istanbul via remote sensing

Development of the Urban Periphery and Issues Related to Urban Landscape Due to Gated Communities

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