Teknik Bilimler Dergisi
Yazarlar: Azize UYAR, Derya ÖZTÜRK
Konular:Mühendislik
DOI:10.35354/tbed.516116
Anahtar Kelimeler:Urban sprawl,Fractal dimension,Box-counting method,CORINE,GIS
Özet: Arnavutköy district is one of the most changing districts of Istanbul province which has the highest population in Turkey. In this study, the urban growth pattern and the change of sprawl were examined. The fractal analysis was used to determine the direction and amount of urban sprawl during the growth process of Arnavutköy. For this purpose, urban areas were obtained from the CORINE (Coordination of Information on the Environment) data of 1990 and 2012 in GIS environment and fractal dimension of urban areas was calculated by box-counting method. The urban areas of Arnavutköy, which has a total surface area of 453 km2, was 12.49 km2 in 1990 and reached an area of 45.61 km2 in 2012. With the increase of the urban areas, it was determined that the fractal dimension, which was 0.9625 in 1990, reached 1.2789 in 2012. Increased fractal dimension value showed that spatial complexity and hence urban sprawl increased in the 1990-2012 period.