期刊名称：International Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics
电子版ISSN：2148-9173
出版年度：2018
卷号：5
期号：3
页码：244-259
DOI：10.30897/ijegeo.427330
语种：English
出版社：IJEGEO
摘要：In today's world geography,the migration from rural area to urban areas continues and the increasing urbanpopulation causes vertical and horizontal urban growth. Many factors, such asspatial growth of cities due to population growth, orientation of high levelincome group towards outskirts of cities, large scale mass housing projects, andhigher education facilities attached to cities, realization of large scalepublic investments because of low land cost cause urban sprawl. In thehistorical process, the urban settlements have been shaped by a variety offactors such as the needs of the society, the security, the naturalenvironment, the proximity to the agricultural areas, the proximity to thewater bodies and the landscape. At the present case, cities are wideningtowards unsuitable areas. It is important to take control of expansion ofcities and to canalize it towards the most appropriate sites. Similar to othercities in Turkey, orientation of urban expansion in Kırklareli city is anecessity for sustainable urban development. The purpose of the study is todetermine the most suitable new development areas by using weighted overlaymethod considering the slope, aspect, land use, soil classes, erosion status,geological structure, proximity to natural drainage systems, proximity to transportationconnections, proximity to urban facilities and urban settled area criteria. Inthe study Geographic Information Systems technology was used. The dataset wasoverlaid predominantly and the settlement suitability level was determinedaccording to the scores of the each cells.
