PRESENT ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Volume 20, Issue no.1/ 2026

Authors :

Kübra SUNA GIDER 1 , Canan KOÇ 1

¹ Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Türkiye

E-mail : * Corresponding author:  kubra.suna@dicle.edu.tr

https://doi.org/10.47743/pesd2026201005

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