THE IMPACTS OF GÜMÜŞHANE UNIVERSITY ON THE POPULATION AND SETTLEMENT STRUCTURE OF GÜMÜŞHANE
Project no. 21217 · Status: Kapanmış (Yayın bekleniyor) · 2020
Summary
<p>Universities, which are the main components of higher education, have always been institutions whose effects are extremely comprehensive. The roles of universities were not only limited to education-training and research-development activities, but through their academic/administrative staff and students, these institutions experienced significant changes and transformations in the demographic structure, economic potential, functional development, spatial growth and socio-cultural character of the cities they are located in. Determining the effects created by universities has entered the field of interest of many disciplines. Geography also provides a rich framework for the effects of universities in the light of physical and human factors, with the principle of spatiality, by examining the effects of universities, especially since the mid-1970s. The size, quality and functional features of the cities they are located in play a leading role in determining the effects created by universities. Universities established in small and medium-sized cities as a means of development attract attention at this point.</p><p>As a result of the strategy of playing a role in the development of underdeveloped small and medium-sized cities in Turkey in 2008, there is no province left without a university. Gümüşhane University, which is the subject of this study, is one of the 9 newly established state universities in small and medium-sized cities. Within the scope of the thesis, it was questioned what kind of changes Gümüşhane University created in the city of Gümüşhane on a demographic, spatial and socio-cultural basis, and the effects of the university on the settlement structure of the city were examined. Gümüşhane University has positively reversed the demographic indicators of Gümüşhane such as population and migration, which is on the decline, helping the city to grow especially in the central part on the basis of spatial development, creating new functional areas, making significant contributions to the socio-cultural structure, and most importantly, changing the settlement pattern. formed the research outputs that were found to bring about the transformations.</p>