Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ATA Planlama ve Tasarım Dergisi, cilt.5, sa.2, ss.89-96, 2021 (Hakemli Dergi)
Cities are the points where anthropological activities take places most intensely. Such
intensification and human interactions bring together economic prosperity, development and
new opportunities. Increasing urban populations and unplanned spatial development cause
cities to become uninhabitable places. It has also become inevitable for the indoor spaces
created to provide housing and work opportunities to the increasing population that these
buildings have to develop vertically and form urban parts with unfavourable features such as
the urban canyon. Urban canyons have negative effects on human life and comfort by affecting
climate elements such as temperature and wind in their surroundings. The aim of this study is;
to deal with the brief definition and characteristics of urban canyons, to determine the areas
which are expected to show the characteristics of an urban canyon in the Yakutiye district in
Erzurum city center, to compare these areas according to certain standards, to determine the
surface area that shows the characteristics of an urban canyon, and to offer solution proposals
in order to eliminate the negative effects caused by these areas