INFLUENCE OF RURAL POPULATION ON URBAN LANDSCAPE PLANNING; CASE STUDY OF BARTIN CITY CENTER AND NEARBY VILLAGES

Abstract

Sustainable urban landscape planning must regard the effect of the nearby rural population as well as the urban society for the decision making on the spatial organization and arrangement of the cities. The cities like Bartın where is immediately surrounded by the villages, are under the pressure of the sudden incoming rural population. In fact, the core nearby population within the 10 km distance is approximately 26% of the total local population of Bartın central city whereas the global nearby population within the mean 20.5 km distance slightly exceeds that total local population. However, the core city center is not suitable for adequately servicing public open space for such population flow; is able to offer relatively qualified public open space for the average 1,500 persons. On the other hand, the public open space of the global city center is to a certain degree available for 26,250 persons. Nevertheless, the spatial composition of the public open space within the core city center is dominated by the squares, tea gardens and pedestrian trails while the public open space of the global city center varies in characteristics including the cemetery yards, parks, orchards and, especially long riverside trails. Consequently, in order to acquire more public open spaces to meet the necessities of the prospective additional rural population, the remaining parts of the riverside landscape within the global city center should be introduced to serve as recreational fields. Ultimately, urban landscape planning projects should also be extended towards the urban periphery for sake of incorporating some of the isolated forest patches into the urban forestry.