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Anticipating an Urban Green Infrastructure Design for the Turkish Mediterranean City of Antalya

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Urban Services to Ecosystems

Part of the book series: Future City ((FUCI,volume 17))

Abstract

Green infrastructure is an emerging approach to make cities sustainable, healthy and more liveable. Based on a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas in urban, peri-urban and rural landscapes, green infrastructure aims to provide sustainable urban development and to link green and blue spaces at both urban and regional scales.

In this study, a green infrastructure design system is anticipated for the city of Antalya. A set of green infrastructure components are identified and used to delineate a system which could take into consideration connections between actual ecological hubs, people and nature and past and present.

The results show that hubs and lines created by overlapped green infrastructure typologies potentially provide connectivity between city and ecology as well as between people and nature in the city of Antalya, Turkey. Antalya and its urban landscapes have a high potential for a green infrastructure design, but in order to integrate the green infrastructure application into urban planning, a holistic approach will be needed involving municipal, regional and state authorities, local stakeholders as well as citizens.

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We would like to thank our reviewers for their kind and constructive comments and for their helpful inputs to the study. We give special thanks to Graham Fairclough and Jeroen De Vries for their earlier revisions and valuable contributions to this chapter.

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    Meryem Atik, Veli Ortaçeşme & Emrah Yıldırım

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Atik, M., Ortaçeşme, V., Yıldırım, E. (2021). Anticipating an Urban Green Infrastructure Design for the Turkish Mediterranean City of Antalya. In: Catalano, C., Andreucci, M.B., Guarino, R., Bretzel, F., Leone, M., Pasta, S. (eds) Urban Services to Ecosystems . Future City, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75929-2_13

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