Master Degree / Yüksek Lisans Tezleri
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Master Thesis Effects of the Odour From Wastewater Treatment Plants on Resident's Living Comfort and Property Values: Case of Narlıdere-Izmir(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018) Demircan, Gökçe; Özdemir, Semahat; Özdemir, SemahatWastewater treatment plants are one of the important technical infrastructure systems in cities. The location of these facilities is at least as important as themselves. Because these facilities can create negative externalities and these externalities can negatively affect people and the environment. The aim of the study is to examine the odour impacts from the wastewater treatment plants on people living around and on property values in surrounding area. In the theoretical framework, the effects of the wastewater treatment plants and similar locally unwanted land uses are examined. In this scope, some examples from the world are searched about the impacts of the negative externalities from this kind of facilities on the health of people living around, their daily life and on property values. Wastewater treatment processes, location criteria of the treatment plants in Europe and in Turkey are analyzed. News published on the internet and complaints on odour impact from wastewater treatment plants are searched both in the world and in Turkey. Compensation forms in accordance with environmental ethics and environmental justice are examined. In this scope, Southwestern Advanced Biological Wastewater Treatment Plant in İzmir is examined. Survey studies were conducted with residents living in the immediate vicinity of this facility. Interviews by questionaries with headman of Limanreis neighborhood, with an environmental engineer working in the treatment plant, and with real estate agents were conducted. At the same time, the effects of the unpleasant odour on the real estate values around the treatment plant were examined with the Hedonic Price Method. End of the study, effects of the unpleasant odour emitted from the Southwestern Advanced Biological Wastewater Treatment Plant in Narlıdere district in İzmir are revealed. It is observed that the odour influences negatively people’s daily life activities, the health of the individuals, quality of the living environment, and property values in the nearby environment.Master Thesis Evaluating Effects of Urban Social Movements for Public Space on Urban Policies(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2017) Sungur, Burcu; Özdemir, SemahatThis thesis is about the urban social movements for public space which defend, reclaim and add use value to urban public spaces. The main aim of the study is to examine the achievements and the effects of these movements to urban policies. The study consists of two main parts. In first part, the conceptual researches were carried out. The concepts of the public space and the right to the city were examined. It was examined what are the urban social movements for public space and in which ways they changed within the historical processes. The research was carried out as part of European and American cities as well as including some cities in Turkey. In the second part, the city of İzmir was chosen for case studies. The urban social movements for public space in İzmir were examined beginning from 1990s. The achievements of these movements and the fact how much presence they establish in urban policies were also evaluated. In case studies, various publications were examined and a media and social media review were carried out; some methods such as direct observation and interview were used. It is concluded in the study that these movements can have a positive effect upon urban policies. While the study is concluded with a comparison between İzmir and the other cities examined within the study; some suggestions were offered to city dwellers that they should continue defending public spaces and to local governments that they should incorporate the ideas and energies of city dwellers in urban planning by working with them.Master Thesis Gis-Based Multi-Criteria Approach for Land-Use Suitability Analysis of Wind Farms: the Case Study of Karaburun Peninsula, Izmir,-Turkey(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2015) Sediqi, Khwaja Jawid; Özdemir, Semahat; Saygın, Mustafa Ömür; Saygın, Mustafa Ömür; Özdemir, SemahatThis study presents a GIS-based multi-criteria approach to identify the most preferred or suitable site for wind farms development in Karaburun Peninsula, İzmir. Criteria for analysis have been identified based on literature review and experts’ opinions. The selected criteria include environmental, technical, and economic as well as social factors. In order to estimate the weights or relative importance of the criteria, the pairwise comparison method in the context of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is implemented. The overall suitability of the study area is determined through the Weighted Overlay method, which is a sufficient weighted approach in geographical information system (GIS) environment. The outcome or suitability map is classified into five scored classes from the most suitable to less suitable and restricted area. On the whole, as the selection of optimal site for the wind farm development is a multi-dimensional process, this thesis intends to consider the following three significant subjects; (a) evaluating and identifying the most influential criteria for land suitability analysis of wind farms, (b) applying AHP as a multi criteria decision-making method to determine the criteria weights, (c) utilizing GIS as a tool to overlay the overall criteria and consequently to identify the potentially suitable location for the wind farms development. Regarding to the above mentioned, eight the most influential available criteria, which are consisted of wind potential, distance from preservation area, distance from settlements, forest, slope, elevation, distance from roads, and agriculture area are identified. Base on pairwise comparison different weights for each criterion is determined. Finally, by using GIS the suitability map for the study area is provided and the result compared with the existing wind farm locations.Master Thesis Effects of Land-Ownership Transformation in Metropolitan Fringe Areas on Existing Urban Pattern (a Case Study of Ayrancılar-Torbalı)(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2000) Karataş, Neslihan; Özdemir, SemahatParallel to urbanisation, growing cities have affected their surrounding rural settlements. This effect has resulted in a structural transformation of the rural settlements in metropolitan fringe area. With this effect, the larger city grew and affected the settlements in their fringe area and with this interaction, the social, economic and physical transformations began to take placein the fringe. One of the most important phenomena, which has been affected from these interaction and transformations is the land-ownership affair. The land-ownership has an important role especially in the physical planning process. Besides affecting the physical planning process, this phenomenon is also affected by physical planning process. The alffi of the thesis is to search for the effects of land-ownership transformation in metropolitan fringe areas on existing and potential urban pattern, and to find out if there are some negative result of this mentionet interaction. In this way, new proposals can be brought up to solve the existing and potential problems related with urban land and land-ownership phenomena, and the quality of living environment can be increased. For this study, first, literature survey related to urban sprawl and urban fringe has been accomplished and land policies in Turkey have been considered. After these researches, all of the title deed data related to case study area which is Ayrancllar Municipality (plot numbers, plot sizes, plot owners, and changing of owners) have been searched between 1968-1998 in a three decades period and been transferred into maps.At the same time, a land-use survey has prepared for the area and the construction permits and physical plans have been taken from the municipality to account for three decades period. Thus, as a result of this study, it can be said that there exist a strong relationship among land-ownership transformation process, physical plan decisions, and existing and potential urban patterns and some urban problems can be solved by adopting more meaningful policies during this changing process.Master Thesis Aquaparks-Location Requirements and Design Criteria(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2000) Nacak, Hanife; Özdemir, SemahatLeisure activities and their spatial requirements have represented steady change throughout the history. Particularly with the industrial revolution, the differentation of the work and life conditions influenced the entertainment approach. As a result of this interaction, new activities and land use types occured. Today the amusement parks, theme parks and aquaparks are getting widespread among the entertainment areas. It is seen that, first theory and practice of these kind of activities were realized in America in the beginning of 1900s.The thesis deals with the aquaparks formed by the changes in the evaluation of leisure occupation. In this study developing process, organizations, samples and design criteria of aquaparks that grove in our country were examined. Researches has shown that the existence of establishments dealing with feasibility studies with every phase upto openning and that the security conditions are steadily controlled in aquaparks, especially in America also the number of aquaparks increasing in our country.Furthermore as the construction processes are analyzed; it can be seen that there exist the lack of consideration of demands of the society, physical conditions of construction area, aquapark standards and convience with the security conditions and the lack of control mechanisms. In this framework, the aim of the thesis is that haven't been examined until today, to find out the location requirements, design criteria and land allocation requirements of aquaparks. Throughout the thesis study the followed methodology is making of literature and internet researches and interviews with the municipality officials and aquapark entrepreneurs of the aquaparks and it includes the physical plans and location analysis of aquaparks that were that were realized in Turkey.Master Thesis The Desing of Information Elements in Urban Areas; a Case Study at İzmir, Kemeraltı(Izmir Institute of Technology, 1999) Geçer, Feral; Özdemir, SemahatToday, one of the biggest problems of our cities is the visual pollution and confusion, which is caused by signage because of the absence of a regulation or a special authorized institution. To prevent this visual pollution, the commercial signage must be examined carefully. This research aims to study the problems about signage and sign planning process, in respect with the regulation examples that are valid for both, in foreign countries and Turkiye, as well as to offer a regulation example in the historical city center of izmir; Kemeraltl in accordance with registered buildings as a case study.Master Thesis Development Trends of Single Family Housing Estates in Izmir Metropolitan Fringe Area(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2004) Velibeyoğlu, Hasibe; Özdemir, SemahatSprawling urban land uses at the fringe areas is a very common development fact, today, in many cities around the world. 1980s is the breaking point when Turkish cities entered into a period when changes and sprawling began to be seen in fringe areas. High-rise satellite towns, shopping centers, office parks, international hotels,large-scale infrastructure projects are the indicators of this change in the fringe of metropolitan city scene. In this period, new housing areas also began to form around the fringe of cities. One of these new residential forms are 'single family housing estate' that indicates to the new forms of urban growth and diffusion processes in metropolitan cities such as Istanbul and Ankara. These housing areas got distant from cities in orderto be nearer to the amenity and represented a tendency to choose location closer to major transportation routes; mostly they are 'gated' and 'packaged' environments. This study is important in examining the Izmir sample of this housing development type where only Istanbul and Ankara samples were discussed before. The aim of the study is to understand the transformation seen in Izmir metropolitan fringe, by studying the development aspects of single family housing estates increasing in number after 1990. The spatial development features and planning decisions orienting the development of single family housing estates that develop at the western axis of the Izmir metropolitan city, within the boundaries of Urla Municipality are studied under the topic 'process'. The reasons and managing factors affecting people leaving the previous housing areas and selecting new areas are discussed in 'behavior' part. Besides, their satisfaction level about houses, housing environments, and accessibility to urban services are questioned.Discussing the constraints created by single family housing estates in metropolitan fringe and potentials brought by them are making easier to perceive this new trend. As a result of the study, constraints of single family housing estates were determined as lack of public space and urban services, automobile dependency, unnecessary consumption and fragmentation of agricultural land and open space, and speculative building. It was also found that there are variety of problems in local government applications and planning regulations.Master Thesis Potential Natural Hazard Areas İn Izmir Built-up Zone Case Study: Altındağ Landslide Areas(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2001) Kutluca, Ahmet Kıvanç; Özdemir, Semahat; Özdemir, SemahatThe major ann of this research is to bring up the magnitude of natural hazard risks in Izmir built-up zone and its, not being taken into consideration adequately. Because the dimensions of the peril not taken seriously enough, the natural hazard risks, which are commonly well known, are not considered important or they are being forgotten after some time passes. Within this research, the magnitude of natural hazard risks for Izmir is being presented in the scope of concrete and local researches over Izmir risky areas.In addition to the thesis's anns, the ongomg laws, regulations, applications and institutions about the concept of natural hazards in Turkey would be criticized in detail. Furthermore updated suggestions would be given upon the basis of existing approaches in the field of politics and planning.Since the concept of natural hazards has an impossible to fully cover perspective considering the measures of pre- disaster and post- disaster, the physical attribute of the buildings influencing the residential precautions cannot be studied. However this thesis would be used as a reference for the future researches in uncovered parts of the topic.Master Thesis Noise Analysis in Urban Areas and Alternative Solutions(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2000) Baydere, Seda; Özdemir, Semahat; Özdemir, SemahatNowadays, together with growing urbanisation pertaining to the numerous developments in transportation technology and also the increase in usage of new, massive and powerful machines every field, noise has become an unavoidable by-product of our mechanised life and brought about serious hazards in our health. Noise damages people's hearing mechanism and perception; harms physiological and psychological balance; decreases performance In one's works and, all in all, it spoils the peaceful atmosphere of environment. It is impossible to avoid those mentioned effects since people are likely to encounter noise everywhere. Noise can be controlled with city planning and urban design before it starts, which reduce its harmful effects on people. Yet, noise control studies in general have been conducted to reduce the noises, which are outcome of contemporary machines. Consequently, noise control studies are not adequate to inform us about what the solutions to the community notses that exist in urban areas are.This study aims at finding out what the sources of noise are in terms of community problem and determining how it affects people. What is more, this study seeks the noise control methods which have been re-established by means of planning and which are applied in the physical space in order to reduce noise. Finally in the last of this thesis, noise pollution analysis has been made in Izmir Mustafa Kemal Sahil Boulevard, as there is formerly builtup area, the noise control methods in terms of planning have been determined in accordance with the results of the noise analysis.Master Thesis A New Method in the Process of Creating Urban Form: Urban Coding(Izmir Institute of Technology, 1999) Goncagül, Ertunç; Özdemir, SemahatThis study aims: to introduce the theoretical and pragmatic features of the New Urbanism. and the .Urban Coding Method.. vhich is known as the last pL1Ilning approach in an historical framework: to show that most of this approach' s design approach in an historical framework: to show that most of this approach design principles and the life style that it determines have something in common and convenient with the traditional Turkish values that we are about to lost: to prove that concerning local features, it would be adapted and take the place of conventional planning approach. In order to demonstrate it a physical comparative design sutdy was accomplished in a case study area, Karşıyaka Şemikler District. which is one of the most important and also problematic site within the Izmir Metropolitan Area. This study indicated that, New Urbanist principles can generate more desirable consequences as compared to conventional principles in the process of creating urban form provided that people approve to change their short sight and approve to be recepti ve.