Coal cities: Characteristics, change and forms of intervention

24th International Mining Congress of Turkey, IMCET 2015 -- 14 April 2015 through 17 April 2015 -- -- 112347Coal cities comprise characteristic urban context mainly based on the relationship between production and urbanization. Apart from taking into consideration of local, geographical and social idiosyncracies, studies on coal cities bring forth some common characteristics in terms of demographic characteristics, economic characteristics, production culture, solidarity networks, social identity, all inscribed in urban space socio-spatially. Hence, coal cities remain as a subject for interdiciplinary research. Coal cities and coal mining regions, as old industrial regions, have experienced dramatic urban and regional change due to changes in terms of production process, introduction of new technologies and new environmental legislation related to coal and also introduction of new energy sources. This conceptual paper will study the main characteristics of coal cities, the impacts of change on coal cities socio-spatially and main forms of intervention to coal cities as part of urban and regional restructuring as responses relying on an in-depth literature review