Monocentric or polycentric?: Defining morphological structure of Nuts-2 regions of Turkey from 2000 to 2016

The popularity of polycentricity has been increasing in recent years. European spatial planning literature and policy documents that emphasize the positive effects of polycentricity can be one of the reason increase in the popularity of the concept. Although not as clear and planned as in European c...

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Main Author: Sat Aydan N.
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Language:English
Published: University of Novi Sad, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management 2018-01-01
Series:Geographica Pannonica
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Online Access:http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0354-8724/2018/0354-87241801001S.pdf
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description The popularity of polycentricity has been increasing in recent years. European spatial planning literature and policy documents that emphasize the positive effects of polycentricity can be one of the reason increase in the popularity of the concept. Although not as clear and planned as in European countries, it is argued that, Turkey's metropolitan cities are also evolving from monocentric spatial structure to polycentric ones. However, there is no empirical study on the measurement of this spatial evolution at national and micro-regional scale in Turkey. From this point of view, this study aims to clarify changes in the morphological structure of Turkey from 2000 to 2016 at national and micro-regional scales and to examine the proposition of 'the spatial configurations of the settlements, especially metropolitans, have been evolving from monocentric to polycentric as results of the dynamics of the 21st century' in Turkey case. The results of empirical analyses show that there is a possibility for Turkey to be a more monocentric in following years if the historical trends continuous.
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spelling doaj.art-407d37a936ee417f90bb49a1f881fbf92022-12-22T01:08:52ZengUniversity of Novi Sad, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel ManagementGeographica Pannonica0354-87241820-71382018-01-012211130354-87241801001SMonocentric or polycentric?: Defining morphological structure of Nuts-2 regions of Turkey from 2000 to 2016Sat Aydan N.0Gazi University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning, Maltepe, Ankara, TurkeyThe popularity of polycentricity has been increasing in recent years. European spatial planning literature and policy documents that emphasize the positive effects of polycentricity can be one of the reason increase in the popularity of the concept. Although not as clear and planned as in European countries, it is argued that, Turkey's metropolitan cities are also evolving from monocentric spatial structure to polycentric ones. However, there is no empirical study on the measurement of this spatial evolution at national and micro-regional scale in Turkey. From this point of view, this study aims to clarify changes in the morphological structure of Turkey from 2000 to 2016 at national and micro-regional scales and to examine the proposition of 'the spatial configurations of the settlements, especially metropolitans, have been evolving from monocentric to polycentric as results of the dynamics of the 21st century' in Turkey case. The results of empirical analyses show that there is a possibility for Turkey to be a more monocentric in following years if the historical trends continuous.http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0354-8724/2018/0354-87241801001S.pdfmorphological polycentricityrank-size ruleprimacy indexmicro-regional analysisTurkey
spellingShingle Sat Aydan N.
Monocentric or polycentric?: Defining morphological structure of Nuts-2 regions of Turkey from 2000 to 2016
Geographica Pannonica
morphological polycentricity
rank-size rule
primacy index
micro-regional analysis
Turkey
title Monocentric or polycentric?: Defining morphological structure of Nuts-2 regions of Turkey from 2000 to 2016
title_full Monocentric or polycentric?: Defining morphological structure of Nuts-2 regions of Turkey from 2000 to 2016
title_fullStr Monocentric or polycentric?: Defining morphological structure of Nuts-2 regions of Turkey from 2000 to 2016
title_full_unstemmed Monocentric or polycentric?: Defining morphological structure of Nuts-2 regions of Turkey from 2000 to 2016
title_short Monocentric or polycentric?: Defining morphological structure of Nuts-2 regions of Turkey from 2000 to 2016
title_sort monocentric or polycentric defining morphological structure of nuts 2 regions of turkey from 2000 to 2016
topic morphological polycentricity
rank-size rule
primacy index
micro-regional analysis
Turkey
url http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0354-8724/2018/0354-87241801001S.pdf
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