Fractal Geometry Analysis of Urban Tissue Morphological Change: The Case Study of Bursa

The urban tissue morphology planning process is a multidimensional and interdisciplinary subject, which dates back to the 7th century BC and is still debated. Studies and classifications carried out with traditional methods are insufficient to understand the cities of our age which have changed very rapidly. For this reason, Chaos Theory and fractal geometry, which have been put forward to understand the nature and its complex structure which cannot be measured by traditional Euclidean geometry, have been used in urban morphology studies in recent years. The main purpose of this study is; to investigate the formation and development processes of a city through the morphological change of the city of Bursa, which has a very rich historical background, by using fractal analysis in urban and regional scales; and to examine the temporal and spatial changes of urban components which are handled with a holistic approach, on concrete numerical data. In the first part, Bursa city stains of seven different years were analyzed; In the second section, the fractal of the past and present tissues of nine different areas of the city, which were chosen from different regions and which were the most changed in the last 15 years, were measured. As a result of the research, it has been determined that the newly formed urban tissue developed by ‘addition’ or ‘articulation’ to the existing ones; and that the tissue development process in urban sub-regions and the growth process of the city, shows a similarity with the numerical data. In the study which presents important data in terms of revealing the order in chaotic morphological process; the city was understood to be a self-organizing multi-fractal structure