【正文】 nmental trends since Turkey signed and ratified many environmental treaties during the past several decades. Generating legislation is not sufficient to attain national environmental goals. The government must also ensure that the purpose of this legislation is met to ensure that the environment can withstand the negative effects of constantly changing and conflicting policies. The case study of the City of Aydin offers a good example of the impact of national policies on land use dynamics at local landscape scale. Landscape ecology is important for planning because it explicitly pays attention to spatial patterns and processes, offers theory and empirical evidence that help planners understand and pare different spatial configurations of land uses. This also predicts the ecological consequences of plans, allowing planners to generate more realistic and prehensive solutions. As a result of industrialization, the Aydin districts experienced the greatest population increases. However, the inevitable consequence of this trend is urban sprawl. Urban sprawl is the disorderly and unregulated expansion of housing, industrial, and mercial development in and beyond the periphery of metropolitan areas. According to Tregoing and others (2022), sprawl consumes precious open space and spoils the landscape with ugly development. However, unlike in northern Europe, America, and other larger metropolitan areas in Turkey, this process didn’t begin to accelerate in the study area until the past decade. Overall, the trend for the landscape matrix of the study area has been outward expansion of urban 山東理工大學本科畢業(yè)論文 6 areas, with the most rapid changes occurring at the fringes of the urban area. However, this growth had not occurred in a simple concentric form, but instead was discontinuous, especially in the Aydin districts, with the formation of separate patches of urban development in the periurban areas and along the major highways. This is a mon trend not only in Turkish cities but in Mediterranean European cities such as Barcelona. Consequently, maintaining sustainable agriculture bees an issue in this context. Sustainable agriculture means agriculture that conserves land, water, and plant and animal geic resources, does not degrade the environment, and is economically viable and socially acceptable. A variety of public policies and programs, such as zoning, use value assessment, purchasing or transferring development rights, and purchasing conservation easements, could protect these rural landscapes. Furthermore, no prehensive plan exists to mitigate the negative consequences of transformations in land use at a landscape scale for all urban areas. Currently, each municipality produces their own individual plans. With different plans operating for different municipalities, achieving consistency and integration is impossible. Therefore, a prehensive plan should be generated to integrate the efforts of the different munities. It is particularly noteworthy that despite the expansion of urban areas in the study area, natural areas have not diminished greatly. Some small developments along the southern part of the study area have expanded at the expense of the natural landscape, but increases in agricultural land use have had a larger impact on natural areas. The establishment of protected natural spaces is necessary to prevent this form of development from encroaching on these areas, and connection of the natural systems in the north and south with a wider ecological work, including the urban open spaces and agricultural patches, will bee increasingly necessary. The petition among these different demands being placed on the landscape requires the development of prehensive plans that include measures to contain urbanization and protect agricultural and natural landscapes. 4. Conclusions This study examined the land use dynamics acpanying urbanization in the City of Aydin between 1986 and 2022. A landscape ecology approach provided a holistic description of the landscapescale relationships involved in these changes. The institutional environment has shaped the land use patterns in Turkish landscapes, with current government policies leading to unsustainable urban growth in the City of Aydin. Industrialization is playing a significant role in the development of the study area by altering the social and economic structures and changing the spatial patterns. Industrial areas are experiencing the greatest change, followed by mining sites. The significant increases in these important economic activities calls for largerscale development 山東理工大學本科畢業(yè)論文 7 plans that will balance economic and environmental goals. The expansion of urban developme