Urban Design Before Urban Transformation

Cities of the future require urban design before urban transformation

Increasing population density causes cities to grow rapidly and irregularly and prevents cities from becoming human-centered. Considering that more than 2.5 billion people will live in cities all over the world by 2050, this rapid and uneven growth will affect human life even more deeply.

As population density increases, cities will experience unplanned growth. It stays inside. This unplanned growth, which negatively affects human life, makes it difficult to manage all processes related to cities, from housing to transportation, from public services to security, from energy efficiency to environmentally friendly systems and disaster management. The way to prevent this is through smart cities.

It is predicted that the smart city market will exceed 1 trillion dollars in 2027. It is estimated that digital twin studies within this figure will reach 125 billion dollars. Countries that are aware of the importance of the issue are also making serious investments in this field. While countries such as Singapore, China and Australia are starting to smarten and redesign their cities, this trend is starting to make itself felt in the West as well. For example, the budget allocated by the UK in April to turn every city into a smart city and to create a digital twin of cities is over 600 billion dollars. The aim of this investment, which will be made in about 10 years, is to redesign cities.

A city needs to be redesigned to meet today's increasing needs. Although efforts are made to transform the city, transformation or smartening of buildings alone is not enough at a point where all details need to be re-planned. In this sense, the solution is not through urban transformation, but through urban design. Because with its urban design projects, it saves not only people's lives but also the future of our world. Research shows that within the scope of smart city-oriented urban design projects, greenhouse gas emissions are reduced by 10-15 percent, water consumption by 20-30 percent and unrecycled solid waste by 15-20 percent.

Evaluating the issue, SAMPAŞ Holding Chairman of the Board of Directors Şekip Karakaya said, “In order to call a city a hundred percent smart city, we must have a holistic approach. In order for cities to achieve this vision, they must be designed from the beginning and planned not only for today's world but also for the world of the future. The urban design vision requires the preparation of modernized and intelligent buildings, the creation of sustainable energy resources and the establishment of sustainable infrastructures. "Then, with the help of technology, continuous and real-time data should be obtained from these components and the city should be managed through this data," he says.

Karakaya, who stated that they implemented the first urban design work in Turkey in the Antalya Kepez region, said: "As SAMPAŞ Holding, the project we carried out especially in Antalya Kepez stands out as an exemplary project in the name of urban design." comes out. The process, which started in 2014 with the Kepez region being declared a risky area and the municipality being given urban transformation authority, was shared with the public as "Turkey's largest urban transformation project" in 2016. A pilot application area of 70 thousand square meters was determined in the project. Along with other pilot cities, solar energy applications in heat and energy production and storage, smart transportation applications such as electric transportation vehicles and management, big data management within the scope of AKOS Smart City Automation System, smart lighting with the internet of things, energy, transportation, home and building solutions. By implementing 42 different Smart City Applications, which include information technology elements such as single-point integration and management, not only urban transformation but also the first example of urban design has been implemented, and a total of 17 projects have been implemented for the cities of Antal, Valencia and Dressden within the scope of the European Union Horizon 2020 Smart Cities and Communities call. We provided 6 million Euros of the million Euro grant to Antalya Kepeze. ” he said

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