City and Regional Planning / Şehir ve Bölge Planlama
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Conference Object Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1Spatial Point Pattern Analysis of Lung Cancer in an Urban Area: Izmir Case(Taylor & Francis, 2013) Özkan, Sevim Pelin; Tarhan, Çiğdem; Eser, Sultan; Yakut, C.; Saygın, ÖmürIn health area, in order to conduct a reliable analysis of the diseases that threat public health and develop control strategies. This is required to investigate firstly how the disease are geographically distributed, secondly regions where disease is observed more dense, and thirdly their geo-statistical aspects. The aim of the study is to prepare spatially distribution map of the lung cancer cases in Izmir, Turkey, and are distributed on Izmir map via GIS. Spatial statistics are performed and the relations of geographical factors and the cancer data are discussed. Smart maps with tabular data and displaying cancer cases on a spatially distribution maps have been produced as end products. ArcGIS and Spatial Analyst module are used for the study.Article Citation - Scopus: 16Trade Openness, Urban Concentration and City-Size Growth in Turkey(Hellenic Association of Regional Scientists, 2015) Duran, Hasan Engin; Özkan, Sevim PelinAim of the present study is to investigate two important issues on urban concentration in Turkey. First, we investigate whether population tend to have an uneven distribution across cities between 1965-2012, second, we analyze the determinants of city-size growth by relating it to the process of trade liberalization and to a range of other socio-economic and geographical factors. In terms of methodology, we employ various cross sectional and spatial econometric tools to implement our analysis. Our results indicate three major conclusions: First, urban concentration tends to increase recently, leading to an unevenly growing cities and creating urban giants (i.e. Istanbul). Second, trade liberalization is shown to intensify this process since metropolitan areas, which are more open to trade, tend to grow faster than others. Third, specialization of cities in industrial activities (i.e. manufacturing) and economies of agglomeration are likely to reinforce the spatial concentration of population around larger cities.