Preface

Chapter 7 **The Relationship Between Sustainable Urbanisation and Urban Renewal: An Evaluation of Trabzon City Sample 155**

Chapter 8 **Smart Specialisation Strategies as Drivers for (Smart) Sustainable Urban Development 179**

Chapter 9 **Mapping the Land-Use Suitability for Urban Sprawl Using**

Chapter 10 **Remote Sensing Studies of Urban Canopies: 3D Radiative**

Parlow, Zina Mitraka and Nektarios Chrysoulakis

Chapter 11 **A Theoretical Framework on Retro-Fitting Process Based on**

Chapter 12 **The Analysis of Turkish Urban Planning Process Regarding Sustainable Urban Development 269**

Chapter 14 **Relation Between Land Use and Transportation Planning in the Scope of Smart Growth Strategies: Case Study of**

Chapter 13 **Landscape Ecology Practices in Planning: Landscape Connectivity and Urban Networks 291**

Gorkem Gulhan and Huseyin Ceylan

**Section 4 Urban Ecology and Land Use Approaches 249**

**Remote Sensing and GIS Under Different Scenarios 205**

Lucas Landier, Nicolas Lauret, Tiangang Yin, Ahmad Al Bitar, JeanPhilippe Gastellu-Etchegorry, Christian Feigenwinter, Eberhard

**Section 3 GIS and Remote Sensing in Sustainable Urban**

Aysel Yavuz

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Claudia Trillo

Onur Şatir

**Development 203**

**Transfer Modeling 227**

**Urban Ecology 251** Selma Çelikyay

Okan Murat Dede

**Denizli, Turkey 317**

Ebru Ersoy

The rapid urbanization that began with industrialization has begun to cause many problems. New approaches are emerging today to minimize these problems and make urban areas more livable. These problems include insufficient social facilities in urban areas for increasing pop‐ ulations due to migration and unbalanced use of green areas, water, and energy resources due to urbanization. Careless consumption and the pollution of natural resources will cause peo‐ ple many more problems in the future than they do today in urban development.

Many professional disciplines have noticed this unbalanced development in urban areas. Urban areas have larger populations than rural areas today. Urban areas are developed ne‐ glectfully. Sustainability is needed as a criterion for urban areas to develop in a more livable and healthy fashion. Sustainable urban development approaches are seen in many fields , ranging from land use to the use of natural resources in urban areas.

This book addresses the important issue of sustainability in urban development and for ur‐ ban problems. Therefore, this book will be an important guide for future publications on this subject and a resource for future research in this field.

The articles in the books have four main perspectives. The first discusses sustainable ap‐ proaches to urban development. The second discusses the urban transformation for recover‐ ing the abandoned or deprived areas and ensuring sustainable development. The third addresses the research on sustainable urban development using Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing. The fourth examines the sustainability of urban areas using urban ecology, land use patterns, and planning approaches.

This book will be a guide to sustainable urbanization. It will be useful as a basic resource for scientists who study this subject. This book is remarkable in terms of answering questions about these issues today with the importance of sustainable urbanization on the rise.

> **Mustafa Ergen** Amasya University, Faculty of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture Department, Turkey
