**7. Results**

In the planning and the design of new settlement areas and the environment with current settlement, in every stage of the plan geological data with out-of-traditional planning understanding for the reduction of urban earthquake risks should be functionalized in compliance with the objectives.

In the process of creating earthquake resistant safe cities, geological-geotechnical investigations and microzoning maps being an understandable synthesis of geotechnical data play a key role in the integration of hazard mitigation precautions to the planning. However, this geohazard based maps should be developed in complience with the requirements of planning scale and its context. At this point, there seen the necessity of the collaboration of the experts of both geological and planning disciplines.

The planning made in the regions with high earthquake risk should be supported by identifying with the probable earthquake scenarios. In earthquake sensitive planning, the formation of gradual centers system with one main center, the identification of the intensities in correlation with settlement potential, the development of multicentered urban form by preventing urban sprawl are essential.

In the urban areas with high earthquake risk, the improvement of the current plans, the reconfiguration in the required locations and the planning of development areas based on the microzoning maps and probable earthquake scenarios would decrease the probable earthquake damages. In earthquake sensitive planning, the integration of geotechnical parameters of the soil as soil amplification, liquefaction and landslide after evaluation to the planning is of vital importance since these parameters during an earthquake can cause secondary urban risks.

The main factors effective in the distribution of earthquake damage can be summarized as the distance of the settlement to the active fault line, geological structure, local soil conditions, the state of ground water, site selection and land use, population density and distribution, building density, quality, order and design.

As it is seen, the basis of creating a safe and sustainable living space in the urban settlement areas with high seismic risk is the evaluation of urban planning and design, geological synthesis and earthquake analysis in coordination with modern scientific methods and techniques.
