LANDSCAPEPLANNING EditedbyMuratÖzyavuz Landscape Planning Edited by Murat Özyavuz Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. 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Publishing Process Manager Marina Jozipovic Technical Editor Teodora Smiljanic Cover Designer InTech Design Team First published June, 2012 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechopen.com Landscape Planning, Edited by Murat Özyavuz p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0654-8 Contents Preface IX Section 1 Landscape Planning 1 Chapter 1 Protected Areas 3 Murat Özyavuz Chapter 2 Land Use/Cover Classification Techniques Using Optical Remotely Sensed Data in Landscape Planning 21 Onur Şatır and Süha Berberoğlu Chapter 3 GIS in Landscape Planning 55 Matthias Pietsch Chapter 4 An Approach to Landscape Planning in Borders 85 Gloria Aponte Chapter 5 Urban Green Space System Planning 107 Bayram Cemil Bilgili and Ercan Gökyer Chapter 6 Tourism Planning in Rural Areas and Organization Possibilities 123 Tuğba Kiper and Gülen Özdemir Chapter 7 Agriculture and Rurality as Constructor of Sustainable Cultural Landscape 151 Juan Gastó, Diego Subercaseaux, Leonardo Vera and Tonci Tomic Chapter 8 Residents’ Perceptions of and Attitudes Toward Sustainable Tourism Planning and Management in Amasra (Turkey) 177 Bülent Cengiz Chapter 9 Woody Plants in Landscape Planning and Landscape Design 199 Viera Paganová and Zuzana Jureková VI Contents Chapter 10 Integration of Infrastructures in Landscape – An Opportunity to Landscape Planning Improvement 217 Maria José Curado and Teresa Portela Marques Chapter 11 Ecological Landscape Planning, with a Focus on the Coastal Zone 233 Canan Cengiz Section 2 Landscape Design 249 Chapter 12 Landscape Perception 251 Isil Cakci Kaymaz Chapter 13 Urban Landscape Design 277 Murat Z. Memlük Chapter 14 Irrigation 299 Mehmet Sener Chapter 15 Private Plantation Techniques 319 Ömer Lütfü Çorbacı and Murat Ertekin Chapter 16 Xeriscape in Landscape Design 353 Ayten Özyavuz and Murat Özyavuz Preface Thepurposeofthisbookistorevealofthelandscapeplanninganddesigninrecent years. For thispurpose, chapters were selected on the topics of different landscape architecturestudy.Landscapearchitectureisthedesignofoutdoorandpublicspaces toachieveenvironmental,socio‐behavioral,and/oraestheticoutcomes.Itinvolvesthe sy stematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions that will produce the desired outcome. The scope of the profession includes: urban design; site planning; town or urban planning; environmental restoration; parks and recreation planning; visualresourcemanagement;greeninfrastructureplanningandprovis ion;andprivate estate andresidence landscapemaster planningand design‐all at varyingscales of design, planning and management. Landscape planning is the key planning instrument for nature conservation and landscape management. Apart from the landscape plans at the local level, i.e. municipal level, there are landscape structure plans (Landschaftsrahmenplane) at the district or planning region level (Regierungsbezirk, Landkreis, Planungsregion) and the regional landscape programme (Landschaftsprogramm) for an entire regional state (Land). The local landscapeplans(ArtlicheLandschaftsplane)arebasedonthespecificationscontained intheregionallandscapeprogrammeandthelandscapestructureplans.Atall levels landscapeplan ningmakesanimportantlong‐termcontributiontotheconservationof natural resources. It not only addresses the narrower areas of particularly valuable protectedsites, butalso devises strategiesforfull‐coverage, sustainableconservation andthelong‐termdevelopmentofnatureandlandscapes. This book is for landscape architects and other planning professions. Theoretical foundations, t heories, methods, and applications will be essential parts of this reference book. In addition, this book addresses several very different subjects of study;landscapemanagement, biodiversity,landscape restoration, landscape design, andurbandesignrelatedtotheory,practiceandtheresultswillbecovered.Duetothe varied usage of the term Planning/Landscape Planning, the intended readership for this book is a broad audience including environmentalists, landscape architects, architects, environmentalists, botanists, urban and regional planners, government agencies, non‐governmental organizations, agricultural organizations, studentsat all levels,researchorganizations,internationalorganizationsandallinterestedparties. X Preface Iwouldliketoexpressmydeepsenseofgratitudeandindebtednesstoalltheauthors for their valuable contributions and also to the researchers who actually performed experiments and reported their findings. I must confess that it had been a rare privilegeformetobeassociatedwithInTechpublishers.Thanksisthele astwordto offer to Ms. Marina Jozipovic, Ms. Sasa Leporic and Mr. Metin Ertufan, Intech PublishingProcess Managers, yetI shallavailthis opportunitytoextend mysincere gratitudefor theirhelpand co‐operationatvarious phasesof bookpublication.Last butnotleastIexpressmysincerethanksandaffectiontomywifeAytenÖzyavuzand mydaug hterAyzaÖzyavuzfortheirpatienceandcheerfulness.Ihopethisbookwill bebeneficialtothescientificworld. Assist.Prof.Dr.MuratÖzyavuz NamıkKemalUniversity FacultyofAgriculture DepartmentofLandscapeArchitecture Tekirdağ,Turkey