ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF UNIVERSITY CAMPUS AREAS IN TERMS OF THE URBAN EQUIPMENTS. CASE STUDY OF DUZCE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

Urban equipments have very important role in supporting different social and cultural activities and the improvement of urban lifestyle. The main aims of universities are supporting students to gain occupational skills by education and practice, producing information by conducting social and economic based researches and practices, preparing students to community life by giving them duties and responsibilities and contributing to the education, awareness and cultural level of the society. In this manner, physical planning of university campuses, as a small model of a city, must be evaluated according to city planning criteria. In this study we aimed to evaluate Duzce University campus planning according to city planning criteria and urban equipments. In this study, literature data and studies of survey and analysis of the campus have been evaluated. The analysis of the data indicated that equipment areas on the campus are one of the important places in which ecological relationship between natural and artificial elements in terms of landscape architecture. In the light of these evaluations, solutions and suggestions have been developed.