Ecological cities are nature friend cities. They are integrated planned cities with natural and environmental systems. The main objective is bringing nature to the depth of the urban and provide their sustainable collectivity and protecting natural life and ecosystem cycles in the cities.
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Urbanization Violence to Nature: Reconciliation With Nature
Aslı Güneş Gölbey (Architecture Faculty, Izmir Demokrasi University, Turkey) and Ayşenur Kaylı (İzmir Demokrasi University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4655-0.ch008
Abstract
With the uncontrollable population growth in the cities, the rising need for settlement has increased the needs of the cities, as well as making the cities consumption centres. The housing intensity of urbanization were damaged at first, then the farms and agricultural production areas in the city periphery, and then it directly affected the natural resources such as air, water, soil, flora, and fauna. However, nature did not remain unresponsive to these events and responded to human beings with various natural disasters. Eventually, the human violence on nature has turned into the abuse nature exerts on human beings, with disasters such as earthquakes, floods, landslides, and fire as a kind of revenge of nature. The future of humanity becomes dependent on reconciliation with nature and adaptation to a sustainable lifestyle. This chapter examines the violence between human nature and urbanization with its causes and possible consequences and offers reconciliation suggestions for a sustainable life.