THE IMPORTANCE OF STRAIT COASTAL CITIES IN TERMS OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: SUGGESTIONS FOR THE ÇANAKKALE CENTER

Abstract

The straits attract attention in terms of international trade and political relations all over the
world. The Dardanelles Strait, which connects the Asian and European land masses and has attracted the
attention of the whole world throughout history, and provides transportation to Istanbul from the Aegean,
is strategically very important. In addition, it gives the city an identity with its physical geographic
feature, visual landscape richness and historical cultural memory it provides to the region in terms of
landscape architecture. For this reason, it is necessary to use species that wil l both reflect and support the
city identity and are suitable for the city ecology in the coastal area design of the Ç anakkale city center.
This study was conducted based on this necessity. In the study, the importance of cities with a strait coast
in term s of landscape architecture was revealed with the support of literature. The aim of the study is to
examine and evaluate the current plant design of the strait coast, which is located in the city center and is
called the “Old Kordon”, and to present sugges tions. As a result of the study, it was determined that there
were important functional and aesthetic problems in the plant design of this area according to the