Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
4TH INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS SYMPOSIUM (ISBS2019) 18 – 20 JULY 2019 Dallas – Texas/USA Organized b, sa.32, ss.386-403, 2019 (Düzenli olarak gerçekleştirilen hakemli kongrenin bildiri kitabı)
The search for creating a sustainable living environment throughout the world
is increasing day by day. Eco-villages are a type of intelligent settlements with
ecological characteristics such as natural agriculture and livestock activities, thus
producing their own nutrients, utilizing renewable energy systems, transforming
their wastes, and having a self-sufficient and collective social life. With the migration
from rural areas to cities, eco-villages constitute a solution for the redevelopment
of rural areas where the population is lost and investments decrease. This
paper underlines the necessity of eco-village’s contribution to cities and human
species and points out the lack of eco-village implementations in Turkey. First,
this article identifies eco-village movement and the development of eco-villages
in various countries, discussing from the beginning how they emerged and were
shaped through needs. Second, this paper aims to find answers of eco-village
indicators in Turkey with the help of a survey study. The survey consists of
different questions which are related to village economy, social structure, usage,
transportation, construction materials, etc. Based on the survey results, the paper
examines which criteria are important and how they could be improved and integrated
to an eco-village model. It is aimed to obtain an eco-village model based
mainly on the outputs of the survey, literature review, and various examples from
around the world.