Abstract:

The urbanization emerged with the industrial society transition from agricultural society, resulted in destruction of natural structure in consequence of the rise of structuring depend on population growth and efforts for constitution of settlement. Yalova is the province where sectors of tourism, industry and agricultural are developed because of its location and morphological characteristics.Yalova experienced the earthquake in 1999 disastrously and it was milestone for Yalova. After earthquake, Yalova was third province that had more loss of life and property. It was exposed to illegal housing due to the sustained migration, also lack of sanctions in the legislation, location of near the fault line and the density of residential in unsuitable geological areas increased the damage of city. Disaster areas were seen on the coastal and alluvion ground as a result of the earthquake. Today, it is observed that geological and ecological features of city are usually ignored in the proposal planning decisions and identities such as city of industry, agriculture, tourism for Yalova. The earthquake risk should not forget in planning studies. So, in this study change of land use and earthquake risk in the city are discussed.

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