Kentsel Planlamada Coğrafi Bilgi: Elazığ Uygulaması/ The Geographic Information in Urban Planning: The Application of Elazığ

Regions are location units, which have homogenous properties in themselves and are smaller than the whole country, and of which their physical, economic and social structures can be distinguished. Potential of the regions and also unbalanced distribution of investments made by the government or private sector cause regional inequalities. Geography, of which its subject is the relation between the natural environment and the human being, continue its activities on the locations by taking into consideration natural and human geography components. That is, plans and projects to be made can not be dissociated from the locations, and they are performed entirely under the control of the geography locationally. It is the subject of planning geography to determine the most efficient methods of utilizing natural and human resources in the whole or in certain part of the world, and to perform directive studies with the aim to put these methods into practice. We are examining the role of geographical factors on the planning of Elazığ in our study, and natural environment and human resources of the study area and its surrounding are examined, geographical data is gathered and importance of geographical factors on the plans and projects to be implemented are emphasized