Engaging Green Infrastructure Scheme into Watershed- and Urban-based Planning and Design Realms

Authors

Serdar Selim, Akdeniz University, Faculty of Science, Department of Remote Sensing, Antalya, Turkey
Adnan Kaplan, Ege University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Landscape Architecture, Bornova, İzmir, Turkey

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7275/fabos.667

Publication Date

2016

Abstract

Watershed planning realm has predominantly been posed by human/urbancentric planning practice solely based on socio-economic dynamics, rather than physical and ecological thresholds at regional level. Thus planning, conservation and management efforts in an individualistic way lack of elaborating natural and cultural landscapes in a holistic way and introducing a monolithic planning and management discourse. This inevitably results in a gap between large scale planning scheme and local plans and, consecutively conservation pursuits both in judicial and administrative spheres remained behind the reach of delivering a comprehensive (conservation) framework.

Based on the aforementioned problematic aspect, the hypothesis that this paper suggests is that existing planning process should accommodate a well-defined green infrastructure (GI) scheme at both watershed and urban realms in order to present regional landscape planning, design and conservation brief.

Recommended Citation

Selim, Serdar and Kaplan, Adnan (2016) "Engaging Green Infrastructure Scheme into Watershed- and Urban-based Planning and Design Realms," Proceedings of the Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning: Vol. 5: Iss. 2, Article 15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7275/fabos.667
Available at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/fabos/vol5/iss2/15