Spatial requirements of fire stations in urban areas: a case study of Ankara

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Hacıoğlu, Çiğdem

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Fires, with their sudden appearance and destructive character, cause property losses beside much more death and injury especially in cities. Providing fire safety is a multi-faceted context that is related with staff, vehicle, equipment, function, organization, technology, education and consciousness. These are related, indirectly, with spatial organization that is the other side of the issue: they affect space or they are affected from space. In research context, the fire stations are evaluated as a unit of emergency and land use element of urban space. By associating the concepts related to emergency management and to urban scale, the space-time relation is examined in urban areas. This research bases on the spatial deficiencies of fire stations in urban areas which are reasons of the fire losses. Level of laws and regulations in Turkey for spatial requirements are examined. Site selection and design criteria of fire stations are evaluated with available information about implications in Ankara case study. As a result of the interviews that have been made to top executive of fire station, it is found that process of site selection and design of fire stations is going on with subjective experiences in urban space. In conclusion of the research, it is displayed that the decisions about the site selection and design of the fire stations are related to not only population criterion, but also many issues in macro-meso-micro scales. It is considered that the set of multi-criteria that are reached in this regard will provide contribution in legal organization and developing the standards.

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City planning., Fire stations., City planning

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612761/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/20193

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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Ç. Hacıoğlu, “Spatial requirements of fire stations in urban areas: a case study of Ankara,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2010.