TÜRKİYE’NİN İMALÂT İŞLEVİNDE UZMANLAŞMIŞ ŞEHİRSEL YERLEŞMELERİ

Abstract

In this contribution, by the Nelson Method, the cities and towns of Turkey that their functional specialization area is manufacturing are determined. And then, the changes occurred in these type of urban places; levels of specializations in manufacturing, spatial distributions and population sizes of them are treated for a period of 20 years, by the help of statistical data from State Institute of Statistics which concerned to the years of 1980 and 2000. In the whole of Turkey, when half of the 92 urban settlements that specialized in manufacturing were leaving of this identity in 2000, new manufacturing cities arose in place of them, then the figure reached to 119. Realized changes not only as numerical but also as spatial are closely related with weak industrialization on the whole of Turkey as well as the levels of specializations of these cities are well below. The number of manufacturer cities and towns decreased both in Mediterranean and Southeastern Anatolian Regions that already had small numbers of locations of this type, unchanged in Eastern Anatolian Region, and being most in Marmara Region, increased in Aegean, Central Anatolian and Black Sea Regions. Marmara and Aegean regions that had 42% of the cities and towns specialized in manufacturing functions in 1980 have been the more centralized areas of industrialization by raising their proportion to 55% in 2000. Eighty percent of urban settlements that manufacturing is a dominant function or one of the dominant functions are below 50.000 populations. The group of 20.000-50.000 populations is notable

Keywords

• manifacturing cities
• functional specialization
• cities of turkey
• nelson’s method
• urban functions