Landscape Planning

372 Pages·2012·36.15 MB·English

by  M. Ozyavuz

LANDSCAPE PLANNING 

Edited by Murat Özyavuz
Landscape Planning
Edited by Murat Özyavuz

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Landscape Planning, Edited by Murat Özyavuz
p. cm.
ISBN 978-953-51-0654-8

Contents

Preface IX
Section 1 Landscape Planning 1
Chapter 1 Protected Areas 3
Murat Özyavuz
Chapter 2 Land Use/Cover Classification Techniques Using
Optical Remotely Sensed Data in Landscape Planning 21
Onur Şatır and Süha Berberoğlu
Chapter 3 GIS in Landscape Planning 55
Matthias Pietsch
Chapter 4 An Approach to Landscape Planning in Borders 85
Gloria Aponte
Chapter 5 Urban Green Space System Planning 107
Bayram Cemil Bilgili and Ercan Gökyer
Chapter 6 Tourism Planning in
Rural Areas and Organization Possibilities 123
Tuğba Kiper and Gülen Özdemir
Chapter 7 Agriculture and Rurality as
Constructor of Sustainable Cultural Landscape 151
Juan Gastó, Diego Subercaseaux, Leonardo Vera and Tonci Tomic
Chapter 8 Residents’ Perceptions of and
Attitudes Toward Sustainable Tourism
Planning and Management in Amasra (Turkey) 177
Bülent Cengiz
Chapter 9 Woody Plants in
Landscape Planning and Landscape Design 199
Viera Paganová and Zuzana Jureková
VI Contents

Chapter 10 Integration of Infrastructures in Landscape –
An Opportunity to Landscape Planning Improvement 217
Maria José Curado and Teresa Portela Marques
Chapter 11 Ecological Landscape Planning,
with a Focus on the Coastal Zone 233
Canan Cengiz
Section 2 Landscape Design 249
Chapter 12 Landscape Perception 251
Isil Cakci Kaymaz
Chapter 13 Urban Landscape Design 277
Murat Z. Memlük
Chapter 14 Irrigation 299
Mehmet Sener
Chapter 15 Private Plantation Techniques 319
Ömer Lütfü Çorbacı and Murat Ertekin
Chapter 16 Xeriscape in Landscape Design 353
Ayten Özyavuz and Murat Özyavuz

Preface

The purpose of this book is to reveal of the landscape planning and design in recent 
years. For this purpose, chapters were selected on the topics of different landscape 
architecture study. Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces 
to achieve environmental, socio‐behavioral, and/or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the 
systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and 
processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions that will produce the 
desired outcome. The scope of the profession includes: urban design; site planning; 
town or urban planning; environmental restoration; parks and recreation planning; 
visual resource management; green infrastructure planning and provision; and private 
estate and residence landscape master planning and design ‐ all at varying scales of 
design,  planning  and  management.  Landscape  planning  is  the  key  planning 
instrument  for  nature  conservation  and  landscape  management.  Apart  from  the 
landscape plans at the local level, i.e. municipal level, there are landscape structure 
plans  (Landschaftsrahmenplane)  at  the  district  or  planning  region  level 
(Regierungsbezirk,  Landkreis,  Planungsregion)  and  the  regional  landscape 
programme (Landschaftsprogramm) for an entire regional state (Land). The local 
landscape plans (Artliche Landschaftsplane) are based on the specifications contained 
in the regional landscape programme and the landscape structure plans. At all levels 
landscape planning makes an important long‐term contribution to the conservation of 
natural resources. It not only addresses the narrower areas of particularly valuable 
protected sites, but also devises strategies for full‐coverage, sustainable conservation 
and the long‐term development of nature and landscapes. 
This book is for landscape architects and other planning professions. Theoretical 
foundations,  theories,  methods,  and  applications  will  be  essential  parts  of  this 
reference book. In addition, this book addresses several very different subjects of 
study; landscape management, biodiversity, landscape restoration, landscape design, 
and urban design related to theory, practice and the results will be covered. Due to the 
varied usage of the term Planning/Landscape Planning, the intended readership for 
this  book  is  a  broad  audience  including  environmentalists,  landscape  architects, 
architects, environmentalists, botanists, urban and regional planners, government 
agencies, non‐governmental organizations, agricultural organizations, students at all 
levels, research organizations, international organizations and all interested parties.
X Preface

I would like to express my deep sense of gratitude and indebtedness to all the authors 
for their valuable contributions and also to the researchers who actually performed 
experiments and reported their findings. I must confess that it had been a rare 
privilege for me to be associated with InTech publishers. Thanks is the least word to 
offer  to  Ms.  Marina  Jozipovic,  Ms.  Sasa  Leporic  and  Mr.  Metin  Ertufan,  Intech 
Publishing Process Managers, yet I shall avail this opportunity to extend my sincere 
gratitude for their help and co‐operation at various phases of book publication. Last 
but not least I express my sincere thanks and affection to my wife Ayten Özyavuz and 
my daughter Ayza Özyavuz for their patience and cheerfulness. I hope this book will 
be beneficial to the scientific world. 

Assist. Prof. Dr. Murat Özyavuz 
Namık Kemal University 
Faculty of Agriculture 
Department of Landscape Architecture 
Tekirdağ, Turkey