Agriculture in urban areas as a socio-economic and townscape value : the case of Rize

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Rapid urbanization, which is one of the major problems of contemporary era, created cities as the major destroying centers of nature and ecology by human beings. In this respect, urban agriculture takes place in urban areas as a new way to meet nature and urban for improving the quality of life in the last decades. Despite the belief that agricultural activities always take place in rural areas, agriculture in urban areas would provide citizens many opportunities in terms of social, economic and environmental aspects. This study aims to identify the notions of urban agriculture, and to investigate its economic, social and environmental impacts by exemplifying the different practices around world. It focuses on Black Sea Towns of Turkey in the case of Rize where agriculture is occupied in important parts of urban and rural areas. Unique features of agriculture in urban areas as they differ from other implementations in the world are examined. In this thesis, UA is considered as socio-economic and townscape value in the city. In the case of Rize, urban agriculture appears as an indispensable part of social life that bears the imprint of rural background of the cities.

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Urban agriculture, Land use, Urban, Urban ecology (Sociology)

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22152

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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D. Üstoğlu, “ Agriculture in urban areas as a socio-economic and townscape value : the case of Rize ,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2012.