An open-green space effective planning model for sustainable urban conservation:: A case study for Konya urban conservation area, Turkey

This paper attempts to define the spatial and functional principles of an urban planning model that will make an effective and efficiency the uses of open-green space for sustainable conservation and development of the cultural heritage in the conservation areas in the city of Konya as the one of the historic cities in the metropolitanization process of Turkey. These definitions are based on the quantitative and qualitative data relating to the uses of the open-green spaces getting from the city of Konya 1/1,000 scale development plans with relating to reports and field survey. As an outcome of this paper, it is stated that the uses of existing open-green space in the city of Konya are far from being satisfactory as effectively and efficiency for conservation and development of cultural heritage in terms of the potentials and dynamics of sustainability. By using these findings, a planning model is defined to make the efficiency open-green spaces on land use system of the conservation area in the city of Konya according to the sustainable urban conservation.