• A quality assessment of public water fountains and relation to human health: a case study from Yozgat, Turkey 

  İritaş, Servet Birgin; Türksoy, Vugar Ali; Deniz, Serdar; Koçoğlu, Serhat; Kırat, Güllü; Demirkesen, Ali Can; Baba, Alper (Wiley, 2019-11)

  Public fountains are very common and everyday people appreciate the benefits a water fountain can bring. However, consumption of public fountain water in some country has decreased because of growing concerns that constituents ...

• Morphological analysis of the transformations of Konak Square in Izmir 

  Can, Işın; Çil, Ela; Yaylalı Yıldız, Berna; Kılıç Çalğıcı, Pınar; Velibeyoğlu, Koray (Sejong University Press, 2013)

  Historical public spaces are always seen as the shop windows of cities by local authorities. Therefore there have been continuous discussions on public spaces' use, display, power, and control in every city. Konak Square, ...

• İzmir’deki ulaştırma projelerinin kentsel eğilimlere etkileri 

  Duvarcı, Yavuz; Selvi, Ömer; Günaydın, Hüsnü Murat; Gür, Güneş (TMMOB İnşaat Mühendisleri Odası, 2008)

  İzmir’deki önemli ulaştırma projelerinin kentsel eğilimlere olan etkileri Delphi yöntemi sonuçları temel alınarak analiz edilmiştir. Delphi yöntemine göre yakınsama sağlanmış etkiler, sonrasında daha anlamlı ve özet ...

• Groundwater resources in local development strategies: case of Izmir 

  Velibeyoğlu, Koray; Yazdani, Hamidreza; Baba, Alper (International Water Association, 2017)

  Rural socio economic development has gained utmost importance in Turkish Metropolitan Municipalities within the frame of recent legal changes extending boundaries towards their peripheral areas. With this regard, Ġzmir ...

• Akifere yağıştan süzülme miktarının sondaj verileri kullanılarak tahmin edilmesi: Alaşehir (Manisa) Havzası 

  Tonkul, Serhat; Baba, Alper; Şimşek, Celalettin; Tayfur, Gökmen; Durukan, Seda; Kumanlıoğlu, Ahmet; Demirkesen, Ali Can (TMMOB Jeoloji Mühendisleri Odası, 2018)

  Son yıllarda iklim değişikliğine bağlı su kullanımının artması ve buna ek olarak aşırı nüfus artışı, yeraltısuyu kullanımını arttırmakta ve su kaynaklarını tehdit etmektedir. Su kaynaklarının sürdürülebilirliğinin ...

• Effect of urbanization on groundwater resources of Izmir City 

  Baba, Alper; Yazdani, Hamidreza (İZSU, 2017)

  İzmir is the third largest city in Turkey. Fifty­six percent of the drinking water of İzmir city is provided from groundwater resources. Halkapınar (located on Bornova Plain) is one of the important groundwater ...

• Geological and hydrogeochemical properties of geothermal systems in the southeastern region of Turkey 

  Baba, Alper; Şaroğlu, Fuat; Akkuş, I.; Özel, Nedret; Yeşilnacar, Mehmet İrfan; Nalbantçılar, Mahmut Tahir; Demir, Mustafa Muammer; Gökçen, Gülden; Arslan, Ş.; Dursun, N.; Uzelli, Taygun; Yazdani, Hamidreza (Elsevier, 2019-03)

  The Anatolia region is one of the most seismically active regions in the world. It has a considerably high level of geothermal energy potential thanks to its geological and tectonic settings. The Southeastern Anatolia ...

• Groundwater in local development strategies: Case of Izmir 

  Velibeyoğlu, Koray; Yazdani, Hamidreza; Baba, Alper (IWA Publishing, 2018-08)

  This study takes into account groundwater in local development strategies of Izmir, in which rapid and uneven development has occurred in recent decades. Therefore, resilience thinking is needed in the future development ...

• Energetic and exergetic design evaluations of a building block based on a hybrid solar envelope method 

  Yelda, Mert; Saygın, Nicel (Springer, 2018)

  To achieve sustainable development, there needs to be a focus on decreasing use of non-renewable energy sources and greenhouse gas emissions. In this regard, many studies focus on the strong relationship between energy and ...

• Place management of a creative city: The case of Izmir 

  Mengi, Onur; Durmaz Drinkwater, Sıdıka Bahar; Öner, Aslı Ceylan; Velibeyoğlu, Koray (Inderscience Enterprises, 2017)

  This study investigates how place management is used to render a creative city through the combination of soft factors as intangible characteristics and hard factors as tangible characteristics of the built environment. ...

• Exergy analysis of mass housing areas: Mavişehir I and II, Izmir 

  Mert, Yelda; Saygın, Nicel (Inderscience Enterprises, 2015)

  In this study, in terms of urban design, an exergy analysis of Mavişehir mass housing area in Izmir, Turkey is carried out based on spatial properties, shadow effects, wind effects and local climate to understand the ...

• An evaluation methodology for the tangible and intangible assets of city-regions: The 6K1C framework 

  Velibeyoğlu, Koray; Yiğitcanlar, Tan (Inderscience Enterprises, 2010-10)

  Together with hard and soft networks, tangible and intangible regional assets play an important role in the knowledge-based development of competing city-regions. The aim of this paper, therefore, is to investigate the ...

• Making accident data compatible with ITS-based traffic management: Turkish case 

  Duvarcı, Yavuz; Geçer Sargın, Feral; Kumova, Bora İsmail; Çınar, Ali Kemal; Selvi, Ömer (Intelligent Transport Systems, 2010)

  One of the most important reasons of the high rate of accidents would largely lend itself to ineffective data collection and evaluation process since the necessary information cannot be obtained effectively from the traffic ...

• A framework for integrating disadvantaged analysis into transportation planning models 

  Yiğitcanlar, Tan; Duvarcı, Yavuz (Gold Coast, 2006)

  The ability to access personal or public transportation is fundamental for people to connect with employment opportunities, health and medical services, educational services, and the community at large. However certain ...

• Urban crisis: ‘Limits to governance of alienation’ 

  Bayırbağ, Mustafa Kemal; Penpecioǧlu, Mehmet (SAGE Publications, 2017-07)

  This article aims to develop a comparative framework of analysis to study urban crises, arguing that there is a need to establish the analytical links between ‘everyday life and systemic trends and struggles’, and thus to ...

• An entropy-based analysis of lane changing behavior: An interactive approach 

  Koşun, Çağlar; Özdemir, Serhan (Taylor & Francis, 2017-05)

  Objectives: As a novelty, this article proposes the nonadditive entropy framework for the description of driver behaviors during lane changing. The authors also state that this entropy framework governs the lane changing ...

• Determining the complexity of multi-component conformal systems: A platoon-based approach 

  Koşun, Çağlar; Özdemir, Serhan (Elsevier, 2017-04)

  Many systems in nature and engineering are composed of subsystems. These subsystems may be formed in a linear, planar or spatial array. A typical example of these formations is a chain of vehicles known as platoon formation ...

• Determinants of co-movement and of lead and lag behavior of business cycles in the Eurozone 

  Duran, Hasan Engin; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra (Taylor & Francis, 2017-03)

  In this paper we study business cycle correlations in the Eurozone and its determinants. Additionally, we also analyze the determinants of the lead and lag behavior of business cycles in the Eurozone. We explore the ...

• Compositing climate change vulnerability of a Mediterranean region using spatiotemporally dynamic proxies for ecological and socioeconomic impacts and stabilities 

  Demirkesen, Ali Can; Evrendilek, Fatih (Springer, 2017-01)

  The study presents a new methodology to quantify spatiotemporal dynamics of climate change vulnerability at a regional scale adopting a new conceptual model of vulnerability as a function of climate change impacts, ecological ...

• Exchange rate movements and its local effects: Turkey case 

  Duran, Hasan Engin (Econjournals, 2016)

  Aim of the current study is to investigate the impact of exchange rate movements on regional growth and inequalities across 26 NUTS-2 level regions in Turkey over a period 2004-2011. In terms of methodology, spatial-panel ...

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