The City in the Pandemic Process: Prospects for "Urban Immunity" - A Study in Terms of Capacity (The Example of the Lakes Region)

With the foresight that epidemics are inevitable under the current conditions, the project aims to determine the level of social expectation at the city level and the capacity of municipalities to combat epidemics in order to increase the capacity of cities to combat epidemics, and to develop suggestions for improvement. In the research, it has been determined that citizens have expectations from municipalities on issues such as employment, cash assistance and continuity in inspections in terms of providing and strengthening urban health-immunity. Again, it has been determined that municipalities are not sufficient to provide urban health and immunity in terms of their authority and resources in terms of providing and strengthening urban health and immunity. In this context, the capacity of municipalities to ensure and strengthen urban health and immunity needs to be developed. Finally, an interdisciplinary and integrated approach to the situation should be followed to make them immunized countries/cities at the national or urban level. In order for the relevant branches of science to act together, cooperation is required between local governments and, in a sense, the central government as an orchestra conductor. What makes the central administration strong is the local administrations that provide urban services locally on behalf of the center. Local governments need to evaluate experiences, make plans for the future, and make cities more resilient for possible future pandemic, epidemic, disaster and crisis processes. Based on this study and its findings, on the new normal urban life and the urban behaviors required by this life; It is necessary to conduct new studies on the extent of the experience. In order to obtain more data on problem areas during the pandemic process, similar field studies in large-scale cities and cities with dense rural characteristics will make a significant contribution to the development of public policy. Because the urban/spatial characteristics of the living place such as the quality, size, crowd; It will guide the preparation of the necessary plans in order to be prepared for possible disasters.