İstanbul is a city with unique natural characteristics, which has completed its metropolisation process by its location, a geographical area with widely influential economic power. Having had a significant importance within the context of globalisation process, İstanbul metropolitan area should gain an identity, which will solve all problems caused by over population, urbanisation, illegal construction, unemployment and industrialisation, and becomes a city having high standards on urban environment and a city to whom the authorities have developed particular methods to protect its natural environment.

The purpose of this study is to attract attention to the necessity of resource based on planning efforts within areas that has forest characteristics in urban areas and to develop an alternate model for it in a sample area. Within the scope of this study, it is aimed to analyze the referred sample area with regard to natural resource protection approach, to identify conservation thresholds and factors having positive and negative impacts on utilization potentials of the area as recreation.