Evaluation of Spatial Development of Çanakkale Kepez Town Through The Planning History

In Kepez, which was established as a village with fertile agricultural lands, rural life has been left behind during the urbanization process spanning 40 years; replaced by a small-scale city. Since 1980, public and private investments made in Kepez Town and its surroundings have been effective in the growth of the town and the reproduction of the space. Since 1980, public and private investments made in Kepez Town and its surroundings have been effective in the growth of the town. From 1980 to the present, spatial policies have been produced for the town in different periods and planning decisions have been taken. Planning approaches in which different actors were active in different periods had an important place in the city's taking its existing spatial form. Kepez, which lost its rural characteristics over time, started to lose the fertile agricultural lands around it with the growth of the urban area. Within the scope of this study, the spatial change of Kepez Town in the historical process has been discussed in three periods: 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. This study reveals that the current spatial form of Kepez was formed by the planning decisions taken so far.