Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, cilt.136, sa.4, ss.349-356, 2010 (SCI-Expanded)
The aim of this study was to show that the effect of a city with favorable characteristics for landscape and urban planning on urban versus rural temperature differences is lower by determining the distribution of daily mean, the maximum and minimum temperatures, and the extent of their differences in urban and rural areas of a small-size and unindustrialized Turkish city, Erzincan, which has favorable landscape and urban planning characteristics due to its reestablishment after a violent earthquake in 1992. With this aim, temperature data were obtained from urban and rural stations of the city and evaluated over a 10-year period (3,653 days from 1999 to 2008) and urban-rural differences of 0.8, 0.9, and 2.0 degrees C were found in daily mean, maximum, and minimum temperatures, respectively, while the most prevalent range of these differences was determined to be 0.0-1.9 degrees C over the study period. It was concluded in the study that in order to design more comfortable and livable urban environments, professionals should consider the population, industrial areas and traffic loads, green area amount and density, and form of buildings in a city and also lay emphasizes on the cautions through which they can create urban environments with less population and larger green areas, e. g., using green belts or constructing smaller suburban sites by separating commercial and industrial areas from housing sites in newly developing areas.