Investigation of Positive and Negative affect of Plants and City Furnitures By Design Criteria of Landscape Architecture In The Main Transportation Arteries of Afyon/Turkey

Abstract

It is an indisputable fact that the streets and the refuge trees and buildings, which have an important position in the open, green areas, the
contribution of the city furniture to the urban environment from the aesthetic and functional point of view. The pedestrian way and refuge
landscape designs have an important position and amount among open green areas on the scale of Afyon. However, it was identified that the
applications conducted were inadequate in terms of aesthetic and functional characteristics and were not suitable for the urban landscape design
principles, in general, and the standards of urban landscaping of the streets. In this research, the Main Transportation Arteries of Afyon (Adnan
Menderes Boulevard, Kurtuluş Street and Yeşilyol Street) was examined in terms of landscape design criteria that focus on use of trees and
street furniture and some suggestions were made by attempting to identify the improvement works that should be performed by the public
authorities.