Land Assessment in Sustainable Campus Planning: The Case of Bursa Uludağ University Görükle Campus

Abstract Increasing demand for higher education causes rapid changes in the land cover and use of university campuses. The increasing demand for higher education causes rapid changes in the land cover and utilization of university campuses. As a response to these changes, sustainable campus planning was born and has become a very popular concept today. Sustainable campuses, which should be established by considering many factors such as directing campus physical development, protecting natural resource values, and responding to needs, should serve as a model for all other physical constructions with their unique characters. In the study we conducted with this approach, Bursa Uludağ University Görükle Campus, which has 14.26 km2 of land, was examined as a sample area to make decisions on topographical features and land uses in university campuses. As a result of the measurements and analyzes, it was determined that 43.73% of the land is made up of green areas (forest-woodland-garden and anthropogenic (shaped by human hands)). The land has a high percentage (44.61%) of slopes of 2-6 degrees (gently sloping-undulating) and 32.81% of the land has a southern aspect. The most common soil group in the land is vertisol soils. As a result of the investigations, it was seen that the campus is suitable for landscaping works in terms of slope, aspect and soil characteristics.