Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
7th International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment, MEDCOAST 2005, Kusadasi, Türkiye, 25 - 29 Ekim 2005, cilt.1, ss.305-316
Urban development challenges of a coastal city tend to entail decline when touristic means of development begin to prevail to the extent that all the distinctive assets are being consumed up to their limits. Kusadasi is a typical case for such development where the coastal areas appear to be currently under threat on the threshold of either experiencing a 'rise' in terms of providing the conditions for sustainable development or furthering the 'fall' that will particularly decrease the living quality in the coastal settlement. This paper considers Kusadasi as a very distinct case of how the urban challenges of a touristic coastal settlement can be overcome through proper planning and management. The major theme of the paper focuses on specificities of a problematic coastal area and expounds upon how planning can become local-specific as well as coast-specific through an integrated process based on new principles and criteria to be adopted. The paper also involves critiques for the existing ways of problem-solving inherent in the field of planning and proposes efforts to set out the main steps to be taken in order to provide for integrated coastal management that will determine how planning practice shall operate. The intention is not to propose any new method, but rather to consider the ways of how the adopted methods can become local- or coast-specific.