THE DISTRIBUTION AND ANALYSIS OF GREEN SPACES IN AMASYA CITY, TURKEY

The arrangement of green spaces in urban development plays an important role in the rebuilding of lost ecosystems connected with urban development dynamics. It is important that these green spaces serve the people living in the city and that planning be undertaken to protect green spaces. ArcGIS will be used for the analysis on green areas in Amasya. It will make an understandable approach of green areas distribution and help to analyze of urban green areas. This study will present the distribution of active and passive green spaces in Amasya by neighbourhood, and green areas will be calculated according to the square meters per person at the neighbourhoods. It will also determine whether the green space is planned or not and the relationship between active-passive green space and population using Pearson’s product-moment correlation.