Abstract:

This study proposes a spatial multicriteria analysis that can be implemented by the micro zonation technique for any city for the assessment of the vulnerability to the physical environment. Niğde, as the case study, recently had pecuniary damages after a medium-sized earthquake. Although it is not located in the earthquake zone, its damage made it necessary to analyze the vulnerability of the city center, where the population density is the highest. This proposed approach aims that the interventions needed to increase urban resilience in a practical way conducted by the institutions responsible for urban planning so that the damage is reduced in a probable earthquake. According to the results obtained, areas with high vulnerability and areas that need urgent intervention to be made resilient were identified. The population living in the areas that need urgent intervention was determined to constitute approximately one-fifth of the total population of the province.

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