| dc.description.abstract | After industrialization, urban places have become very important for human residence. Recent researched have proven
that more than half of the world population lives in places
that can be defined as ‘urban’ or ‘districts’ (Schuurman, Dimitri; Baccarne, Bastiaan; De Marez, Lieven; Mechant, Peter,
Dec 2012). Therefore, urbanization can be considered as
one of the most important results of industrialization. During urbanization, urban areas began to change as a response
for changing living conditions and growing population. Consequently, cities began to exploit and make the maximum use
of the natural areas to suffice the rising living standards of
the people. However, this caused ecological, environmental
and regional problems such as urban sprawl, the loss of green
space, loss of biodiversity, the increase of abandoned and
polluted lands, distressed urban areas, high traffic of streets,
inadequate infrastructure and threatened the ecosystem. In
parallel to these changes, in 1987, the terms of sustainability and the report of ‘our common future’ drew attention
and made people focus on environmental and development
issues. The report ‘Our Common Future’ gave a major impetus to the global, regional and national environmental policies
(ANDRA´ S SCHUBERT,ISTVA´ N LA´ NG, 2005). In this
case sustainability’s target is to meet the economic, environmental and social needs of community without harming to
the living conditions of future generations. In this statement,
three components of sustainability have gained importance.
These are economic, social and environmental. | en_US |
