Location: Osmaniye, Turkey

Date of Start and Completion: 2022 – 2023

Clients: Osmaniye Municipality

Project Description:

The main goal of the “Urban Resilience Action Plan” consultancy service is to analyze urban resilience profiles, the preparation of emergency action plans, and the Municipality’s land and property value analysis. Osmaniye, one of the most important cities in the Mediterranean Region due to its history, cultural features, and geographical location, is experiencing significant problems in urban fragility due to external factors that threaten it. To eliminate the problems of urban fragility, the necessity of an urban resilience study in which sustainability and environmental sensitivity principles are taken into consideration and the issue of social justice is taken into consideration emerges. The major focus of this project was the analysis of Urban Resilience Profiles and the creation of Emergency Action Plans in two scales:

First level: Regional level which has been done in district levels of Osmaniye Province, including Bahçe, Düziçi, Hasanbeyli, Kadirli, Osmaniye, Sumbas, and Toprakkale.

Second level: All neighborhoods of Osmaniye City which include 37 neighborhoods.

This study followed up to support local governments and relevant stakeholders to transform urban areas into safer and better places to live in, improving their capacity to absorb and rebound quickly from all potential shocks or stresses, leading them towards sustainability, and finally estimate the market value of land, buildings, and real estate, to maximize Municipality’s profit from a sale or rental agreement.

To evaluate Osmaniye Province’s regional resilience, a novel indicator-based approach was proposed to measure resilience at the regional scale using only publicly available statistical data. The selection of indicators was based on the PEOPLES framework’s dimensions and components. To translate these indicators from a qualitative measure into a quantitative measure, their interdependency and importance have been evaluated through a Delphi Method and combined to obtain weighting factors.

Urban resilience has been broken down into four components: HEALTH & WELLBEING, SOCIAL & ECONOMIC, INFRASTRUCTURE & ECOSYSTEMS, and LEADERSHIP & STRATEGY.