Identification of Planning Region with Deductive Approach: The Case of Trabzon-Vakfıkebir
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https://doi.org/10.15320/ICONARP.2025.343Keywords:
Boundary, Deductive Approach, Vakfıkebir-Trabzon, Identical, Planning RegionAbstract
All definitions of the region to date have lost their meaning with the 21st century understanding of the region and even the concept of region alone has become insufficient to define an area. This change has led to the development of new perspectives on the region in theoretical and practical regional science. Within the scope of this study, it is aimed to determine the plan region boundaries in the territorial context of Vakfıkebir district, one of the border settlements of Trabzon in Turkey, which was determined as a sample area. Boundary determination was made by prioritizing spatial proximity/juxtaposition and porosity principles in the region, which is considered as a territorial entity with the spatial integrity of local units juxtaposed with a deductive approach. Similarity discussions/studies were carried out in the context of all districts of Trabzon and Giresun provinces, ignoring the provincial administrative border between Trabzon and Giresun province, which is the border settlement with the closest districts to Vakfıkebir district. Within the scope of the data set compiled from relevant institutions/organizations in social, economic, political and spatial dimensions, the territorial/scale similar settlement classes of Vakfıkebir were determined through cluster analysis method. The results obtained were interpreted and Vakfıkebir's primary and secondary "Broad Interactive Region" was defined. In this context, in order to contribute to the production of realistic and feasible regional development and development policies in regional planning practice, a context-oriented approach was envisaged in which the hierarchical, fixed structure of the region and the existence of vertical relations were revealed.
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