The Evaluation Of Antalya Kalei？i Streets In Terms Of Plant Materials And Planting Design

Plants, which are living beings, are the most important design materials of the landscape architecture profession. Plant design principles must be considered in order to regulate the relationships between structural and other plant materials in the places where plants are used. The aim of the research is to determine the plant species in the streets of Antalya Kalei？i, to evaluate the planting designs of these streets according to variety, repetition, emphasis and balance principles and to analyze the relations between street characteristics and planting design principles. When the streets were evaluated according to the design principle, the use of basic design elements such as form, color, texture and size were questioned. It is determined that there are 127 different plant species in the streets of Antalya Kalei？i, and only 70 plants are used as potted plants and 21 plants are only used as plantings, 36 plants were found to be used both as a potted plant and as a planting plants. It has been determined that 6 of 63 streets successfully provided variety, repetition, emphasis and balance principles in planting design. The relationship between the number of plant species planted in streets, number of plant species used as potted and total number of species and design principles were found statistically significant. As a result, the number of plant species was found to be effective in providing planting design principles in the streets of Antalya Kalei？i. At the same time it has been determined that use of planting plants and potted plants created different effects and the planting design was effected by the street length and street width