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Guest Lecturer: Ender Peker, PhD

  The guest for city series 5 was Ender Peker. He mentioned climate change. Average temperatures and conditions over the years in a particular location determine the characteristics of the climate. Human activities in nature are a factor in climate change. For example, the fact that people create greenhouses and grow their plants in these greenhouses plays a very important role in climate change. Solar rays reflected on the Earth are held by gases in the atmosphere, primarily carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor. Thus, the world warms up. The retention of solar rays by these gases is called the greenhouse effect. If the greenhouse effect continues in this way, global warming will start to threaten the entire world between 2030 and 2052.

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  In fact, the terms climate change and global warming are different terms. However, today's climate change is no longer a change due to global warming and has turned into a climate crisis. For this reason, the concepts of global warming and climate change are frequently used side by side.

 How to Respond to Climate Change?

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    In his presentation, he talked about two solutions for this issue: Mitigation and Adaptation. Firstly, mitigation aims at reducing greenhouse gases. He said that as planners, attention should be paid to the urban building order while planning the city. When building a place, one should look at the climate of the area where it is built, not the general climate. He also talked about how we can keep gas emissions to a minimum while planning the city. The reduction of glass buildings also reduces gas emissions and lowers the temperature. On the other hand, we can reduce gas emissions by using public transport instead of private vehicles.

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  Secondly, he talked about adaptation. From the past to the present, the climate has changed completely. Therefore, we must look for ways to adapt to this changing climate. Cities must adapt to irreversible and unpredictable changes such as flash floods and heatwaves. Therefore, cities should be prepared to take these changes into consideration. On the other hand, blue-green infrastructure plays a very important role in water management. He mentioned that absorbent surfaces can be used to incorporate the excess water into the water cycle. He also stated that afforestation and shading is a very basic design process.

   Finally, as urban planners, we must evaluate these two concepts together and design our cities accordingly.

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