Interpretation of urban data in the complex pattern of traditional city: The case of Amasya
Traditional cities are complex organic systems which have many forms and
structures affecting each other spontaneously through time. Today, uncontrolled
urbanization activities destroy the wholeness of these organic patterned struc-
tures and destroy their local character by top-down planning decisions and de-
signers’ personal motives. Thus, for enhancing the continuity in traditional ur-
ban patterns, understanding the inner nature of urban patterns is crucial. In this
context, the aim of the proposed method is to deal with the huge number of raw
data coming from complex traditional cities and analyze them with computation-
al techniques in order to let designers create some basic rules and understanding
in terms of the spatial organization of city structures in the early phase of urban
design process. These rules can give clues about the essence of the city and guide
designers and authorities for better integrated designs with traditional patterns
not only in their physical form but also in the social, economic and cultural con-
text. In this sense, the proposed method offers Data Mining algorithms in terms
of knowledge discovery in the urban database with the help of Geographic Infor-
mation System (GIS) technologies.