ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Analysis of Urban Green Area Accessibility
and Quality for Ecosystem Services
as a Spatial Decision Support:
In the City of Erzurum (Turkey)
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Atatürk University Faculty of Architecture and Design, Department of Landscape Architecture, Erzurum, Turkey
Submission date: 2022-10-04
Final revision date: 2022-12-13
Acceptance date: 2023-09-21
Online publication date: 2023-11-06
Publication date: 2024-01-03
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Nalan Demi̇rci̇oğlu Yildiz
Department of Landscape Architecture, Atatürk University, Atatürk üniversitesi mimarlık, ve tasarım fakültes, 25000, erzurum, Turkey
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2024;33(1):915-926
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Population growth leads to an increase in areas with rough surfaces such as residential and industrial
areas, and a decrease in green areas. As a result of the study, Erzurum city center with a population of
417,784 people has an area of 91 km2 in the zoning data for 2015. According to the 2015 zoning, there
are 672.90 hectares of active and passive green areas in the city center. A total of 121 park spaces
cover 120.24 ha. According to 2020 data, the amount of park space per person has been determined
as 3.07 m2. When evaluating the different zones around the park areas that are actively used in the study
area, it has been determined that the 300 m access to the park areas covers 16% of the city center and
50% of the population can reach it. The distance of 30 m from children’s playgrounds is 5%. When the
number of people living in the city center and the accessibility of the existing green areas are evaluated,
20% of the population and 6% of the area are within 1 minute. 26% of them provide access to green
areas in more than 10 minutes.