In recent years, new structuring is being observed in urban planning parallel to the prominence of technology. Citiesare being modeled based on their social texture and with urban regeneration projects; they have been gained variety of identities.In these efforts -where sometimes monotype cities are emerged- cities become misidentified and lose their uniqueness for thereason that environmental components forming the urban texture are not being comprehended correctly. Artvin, with its uniqueurban structure, is taken as an example in this study and the effects of environmental components on the city’s profile were triedto be investigated. For this purpose, factors of topography, climate, vegetation cover, fauna, geological and geomorphologicstatus and presence of water were analyzed since they affect the city profile. As a result, it was determined that the naturalenvironment of Artvin has been effective both to increase eigen value of the city in respect to its urban identity and to cause thecity to become identified with such names as “land adjacent to the sky”, “city of stairs” and “green Artvin”.