İDEALKENT

Yazarlar: Dilek ÇETİN, Yağmur KARA, Zeynep Ceren HENRIQUES CORREIA

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:Disaster,Sustainable City,Smart City,Marmara Earthquake,Turkey

Özet: Sustainable development is the foundation of economic and social policies for all countries in world. In 2018, 55.3% of the world population lives in cities and this ratio is expected to exceed 75% in 2030. In this context, the growth of cities should be controlled and directed. The cities, without a forward looking city policy, are in desperate straits towards to disasters. The city should be harmonized with the nature meanwhile enhancing the city life quality. Sustainable cities ensure harmony between the men and the nature and prepare the city to disasters while smart cities help to recover cities by means of information communication technologies. Thus, the cities would not be vulnerable against the disasters. In Turkey, in-stead following a national or sectorial disaster struggle polices, cities emerge as a niche. 1999 Marmara earthquake, the highest loss from a disaster in the history of Turkey, analyzed ac-cording to these concepts. The government should transform from fatalistic, curative, reactive to self-confident, protective and pro-active in the framework of sustainable and smart cities in Turkey. It is clear that cities need to be sustainable and smart to be prepared for the disasters.

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