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Citation - Scopus: 26
Analysis of Land Use/Land Cover Changes and Prediction of Future Changes With Land Change Modeler: Case of Belek, Turkey
(Springer, 2023) Akdeniz, Halil Burak; Serdaroğlu Sağ, Neslihan; İnam, Şaban
In the areas declared to be a tourism center by state planning, a rapid tourism-related development occurs depending on the investments in tourism, which causes a dramatic land use/land cover (LULC) change. Determining, monitoring, and modeling of LULC changes are required in order to ensure the conservation-use balance and sustainability within such vulnerable areas that are under development pressure. This study consists of four steps. In the first step, the Landsat images dated 1985, 2000, 2010, and 2021 were classified using the maximum likelihood method and the LULC of Belek Tourism Center located in Turkey were determined. The second step included the identification of areal and spatial changes between the LULC classes for the four periods. In the third step, the LULC changes in Belek Tourism Center for 2040 were modeled using the land change modeler. Last step evaluated the relationship between the modeled spatial development pattern and the current planning decisions. According to the results obtained during 36 years, the rates of built-up, forest, and water body areas have increased by 11.91%, 13.67%, and 0.82%, respectively, whereas the rates of barren land and agricultural areas have reduced by 22.25% and 4.15%, respectively. The LULC map modeled for 2040 predicts the built-up areas to expand by 8.25% and the agricultural areas to shrink by 5.42% by comparison with 2021. This study will contribute as a key measure for planners, policy-, and decision-makers to make decisions related to sustainable land use in the areas declared to be a tourism center.
Arazi Toplulaştırma Projelerinin Ekonomik Analizi: Üçhüyük Mahallesi, Çumra- Konya- Türkiye Örneği
(2020) Çay, Tayfun; Satılmış, Ramazan Yoldaş
Arazi toplulaştırma projeleri sonrasında elde edilen ekonomik kazançlar hem tarım hem de ülke ekonomileri için oldukça önemlidir. Arazi toplulaştırma projelerinin artırılması ve ülke genelinde yaygınlaşmasının sağlanması açısından arazi toplulaştırma projelerinin getirdiği ekonomik kazançların özümsenmesi oldukça önemlidir. Bu çalışmada, Konya İli Çumra İlçesi Üçhüyük Mahallesinde yapılan arazi toplulaştırma projesi incelenerek yapılan toplulaştırma çalışmasının ekonomik analizleri yapılmıştır. Çalışmada çiftçilerle yapılan anketler ve proje sahası bilgileri incelenmiştir. Ayrıca toplulaştırma çalışmalarının işletmeler üzerindeki etkilerinin belirlenebilmesi için işletmeler büyüklüklerine göre 3 gruba ayrılarak işletmeler üzerinde gayri safi üretim değeri, gayri safi hasıla, işletme masrafları, saf hasıla ve net kar kriterlerine göre analizler yapılmış büyük işletmelerin toplulaştırma çalışmalarından daha büyük kar elde ettiği bulunmuştur. Analizler yapılırken önceki yıllarda yapılan çalışmalarla da karşılaştırmalar yapılmıştır.
Citation - WoS: 1
Challenges To Urban Housing Policies Implementation Efforts: the Case of Nairobi, Kenya [article]
(2020) Agayi, Collins Ouma; Karakayacı, Özer
PurposeThe arrival of native African communities from rural Kenya looking for opportunities led to population growth. Nairobi, therefore, has rapidly urbanized and sprawled 18 km2, and 688 km2 in 1900, and 1963 respectively. With population growth, housing demand has surpassed supply resulting in the housing crisis. The aim of this paper is to a) examine the policy and legal efforts put forward to address the housing problem in Nairobi, b) discuss the challenges to the urban housing policies implementation efforts, and c) make suggestions based on the findings of social, economic and infrastructural impacts of the intervention measures. Design/Methodology/ApproachThe research establishes that government efforts to address the housing problem through measures like urban migration restriction, employer housing, housing schemes, slum demolitions, and slum upgrading have not been successful due to challenges of land security tenure, gaps in policy enforcement, and compliance, insufficient public participation among others. FindingsThe paper makes appropriate suggestions to reform the policy approaches by focusing not only on housing aspects but economic, and land tenure reforms, and the extent of public involvement.Research Limitations/Implications The study analyses secondary sources including research articles, theses, and governments whose data were collected through primary methods like interviews, field observation, and administration of questionnaires. It, therefore, limited the findings in case of Nairobi.Practical Implications The study contributes to recommend that provision of the basic services be carried out in the slums alongside and economic empowerment programs to relieve the residents of financial poverty. Slum upgrading programs should therefore seek to impact the socio-economic lives of the slum dwellers. Originality/Value This study explores past and present efforts by different regimes and non-governmental organizations to give an answer to the housing crisis in Kenya. and the subsequent development of slums and informal settlements.
Citation - WoS: 4
Determination of Urban Sprawl Effects on Farmlands Value Using Gis
(2019) Karakayacı, Zuhal; Karakayacı, Özer
This paper presents to determine urban sprawl boundaries and the factors of affecting farmland value in urban sprawl. Urban sprawl index is calculated to identify its boundaries and Analytic Hierarchic Process Method is used for determined to weight for the factors. By using these weights in the Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, the value map is created. We illustrate that the farmlands in urban sprawls lost their properties and transformed into urban lands. The analyses revealed that farm criteria have no effect on the lands in urban sprawl. Both urban and rural solutions should be improved in order to prevent the abuse of fertile farmlands that occurred as a result of urban sprawl.
Citation - WoS: 2
Determining a Strategy for Sustainable Development of Local Identity: Case of Birgi (i̇zmir/Turkey)
(2018) Topçu, Kadriye
Today, it is difficult to retain and strengthen local character in the globalizing world. Showing the advantages of small towns and to strengthen their identities with focusing on ‘small realities in a globalizing world’’ by increasing the value of local differences is an important subject in the global atmosphere. From this point, taking the advantage of Birgi’s (Izmir/Turkey) having strong natural, man-made and cultural identity, this study aims to find out the most appropriate planning strategy for the sustainability of Birgi’s (İzmir-Turkey) local character and identity which was selected as a case study. This study made some on-site observations for establishing the existing local identity potentials of Birgi. After these observations, within the scope of the study, first of all, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT factors) of the settlement were identified. Additionally, to determine the most appropriate planning strategy, a numerical SWOT analysis called A’WOT analysis which is the combination of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and SWOT analysis was used. Then, identified SWOT factors prioritized by an expert group (35 person) using A’WOT analysis. After finding general and local priority values of SWOT factors, four planning strategies were displayed by using TOWS matrix. Then, the most appropriate strategy among these planning strategies was chosen according to their priority values. In conclusion, it was found that “Entering to Slow City Movement” planning strategy is the most appropriate and important strategy between prioritized planning strategies for the sustainability of Birgi’s local identity.
Determining People's Design Priorities for Neighbourhood Units: a Study in Liverpool, Merseyside
(ICONARP, 2022) Levend, Sinan; Fischer, Thomas B.
Local planning authorities and developers aim at designing and regenerating neighbourhoods in which people want to live. However, this aim is difficult to achieve if participation is conducted poorly. As a result, people may live in places that are created according to the ideas of designers and the priorities of market conditions and not according to their own. Therefore, determining people's preferences is essential for livable and sustainable neighbourhood design. This paper introduces and tests a method for determining people's design preferences, namely an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology. The method is basedon making pairwise comparisons of key design principles and structural factors of neighbourhood units. The testing was conducted in Liverpool city centre. Here, it was established that participants' priorities in neighbourhood design are safety, affordable housing and accessibility, respectively. Also, participants prefer to live in non-gated detached and semi-detached housing communities. This article offers an empirical contribution to the participatory neighbourhood planning literatüre.
Citation - WoS: 2
Geographic Information Systems (gis) Based Accessibility Modelling Approach in Micro Scale Considering Physically Disabled Users: Case Study of Mimar Muzaffer Campus, Selcuk University
(2018) Ertuğay, Kıvanç
The concept of physical accessibility refers to the availability, capability, comfort, convenience of transportation processes considering different urban obstacles / barriers and costs. In this context, there are many approaches for the measurement and evaluation of physical accessibility in the literature which are used extensively as a decision support especially in transportation, geography and city and regional planning related disciplines. Although there are large number of modelling approaches on physical accessibility modelling in macro scales (such as national, regional, city and town scales), the research on physical accessibility modelling, in micro scales (such as street, human, neighbourhood scales), which couldconsider all the details of the perceived space seem to be extremely limited. This study, which emerged from this lack of accessibility modelling literature, proposes a Geographical Information System (GIS) supported methodology to demonstrate how physical obstacles / barriers such as “buildings, landscape areas, walls, steps, stairs, pits, unfitted street furniture, other (garbage, rubbles, trees etc. that prevent access) etc.” and transitions such as “ramps with appropriate slope, elevators and/or “removing walls / steps” could be defined in GIS environment and how access and circulation in (outdoor) urban space could be modelled considering these physical obstacles / barriers and transitions especially taking physically disabled users (users using wheelchair, bicycle, baby's car, market car etc.) into consideration in the micro scale. The proposed accessibility modelling methodology is conducted at Selçuk University, Faculty of Architecture, Mimar Muzaffer Campus Area. A polyline-based spatial GIS database has been developed to demonstrate how physical barriers and transitions could be modelled in micro scale in GIS environment in order to evaluate physical accessibility. The results of the study could provide an accessibility based decision support environment by visualizing and presenting how physical obstacles in urban space prevent physically disabled users from access and circulation and how the elimination or removal of these physical obstacles and creation of transitions will create a difference in access and circulation for the users in a comparable manner especially in micro scale. This study is thought to make a significant contribution to increase accessibility levels of physically disabled users (users using wheelchair, bicycle, baby's car, market car etc.) in the outdoor urban areas in terms of demonstrating their accessibility and circulation capabilities. The primitive experimental model related with this research was carried out with the participants of the accessibility measurement and modelling session at the 3rd National Disability Workshop which is held in Selcuk University, Mimar Muzaffer Campus dated 2-3 May 2018.
Citation - WoS: 7
Citation - Scopus: 6
The Glocalisation of Istanbul's Retail Property Market
(EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, 2022) Eren, Fatih; Henneberry, John
Purpose The continuation of globalisation and liberalisation processes has prompted the restructuring of many national and local property markets. The research examines the evolution of Istanbul's retail property market to identify how global and local agents engage with one another to produce a unique glocalized outcome. Design/methodology/approach The morphogenetic approach is adapted and applied to analyse the dynamics of market change. The focus is on the character and behaviour of national and international market actors and how they interact with the wider political economy. The research uses a combination of elite interviews, document analysis and corporate case studies to obtain empirical evidence. Findings The liberalisation of the Turkish economy heralded the entry of the first international companies into Istanbul's retail property market in the 1990s. International involvement expanded rapidly after 2004, accelerating the process of market re-structuring. However, while the number of global buy-outs increased, the expansion of local property companies-and the establishment of some international/national corporate partnerships-was even more marked. This resulted in a glocalised market with a strong and distinctive local culture. Originality/value Istanbul has been a major centre of trade for millenia. This is the first substantive analysis of the recent restructuring of the city's retail property market. Previous research on market maturity and market evolution has paid limited attention to the dynamics of change. The paper describes the use of a process-based theoretical framework (morphogenesis) that was explicitly designed to analyse structural shifts in socio-economic conditions through an examination of the characteristics and behaviours of the actors involved.
Citation - WoS: 3
İnşaat Odaklı Ekonomide Kentsel Dönüşüm Mevzuatının Dönüşümü, Pratiği ve Planlama İlke-esasları Çatışması: Mahkeme Kararlarında Ankara Örneği
(2021) Çamur, Kübra Cihangir; Korkmaz, Cansu
Kentsel dönüşüm ve yenileme süreçleri, plan-projelerin uygulama aşamaları mevzuatla düzenlenmektedir. Türkiye, kırılgan ve gelişmemiş siyasi-ekonomik yapısının bir sonucu olarak, ekonomik sorunların hızlı çözümüne yönelik bir politikayla “inşaata dayalı ekonomik büyümeyi ve kentsel dönüşüm stratejisini” benimsemiş; 2012 yılında kentsel yenilenmeyi dönüştürmek ve hızlandırmak için hazırlanan 6306 sayılı Kanun ile “afet riskli alanlar” dönüşüm kapsamına alınmıştır. “Afet riskiyle mücadele”nin odağa alınmasıyla toplumsal ve bireysel itiraz temelinde engellerin ortadan kaldırılması hedeflenmiş; bu alanların yanı sıra gecekondu alanları, henüz yapılaşmamış alanlar, hatta koruma alanları kentsel dönüşümün konusunu oluşturmuştur. Bu araştırmada, “dönüşüm alanlarının ve sınırlarının tespiti, ilan edilmesi ve uygulanmasına yönelik kentsel dönüşüm planlarının-projelerinin mahkeme süreçleriyle iptallerini içeren 2005–2012 dönemi Ankara örneğinde" incelenmiştir. Çalışmada planlama ilke ve esasları ile kentsel dönüşüm arasındaki çatışmanın nedenlerinin, ekonomik ve sosyal bileşenlerin planlama süreçlerine entegrasyonu koşullarının ve olanaklarının tartışılması amaçlanmıştır. Araştırmanın sonuçlarına göre iptallerin önde gelen nedenlerini, dönüşüm projelerinin üst ölçekli planlara ve hiyerarşiye aykırılığı; dönüşüm alanlarının ve sınırlarının kentsel dönüşüme uygunluk kriterleriyle örtüşmemesi; alan-sınır tespitinde gerekli teknik incelemelerin yapılmaması; önerilen yoğunlukların ve kullanım kararlarının planlama ilke-esaslarıyla ve kent bütünündeki planlama kararlarıyla uyuşmaması ve mülkiyet dağılımının hakkaniyet temelinden uzak olması oluşturmaktadır.
Citation - WoS: 8
Morphological Structures of Historical Turkish Cities
(2019) Topçu, Mehmet
In this study, morphological structures of the traditional fabrics of cities in Turkey, which have been shaped under the influence of various different cultures and geographical and climatic conditions in the historical process are presented via a mathematical interpretation. In this scope, spatial configuration and morphological structures of the historical cores of a total of fourteen cities selected from the seven geographical regions of Turkey, two cities from each (from the Marmara Region, Edirne and Bursa; from the Black Sea Region, Kastamonu and Trabzon; from the Central Anatolia Region, Sivas and Kayseri; from the Eastern Anatolia Region, Kars and Erzurum; from the Aegean Region, Muğla and Kütahya; from the South Eastern Anatolia Region, Urfa, Mardin and lastly from the Mediterranean Region, Tarsus and Antakya) region were analyzed comparatively using the Space Syntax method. In this method, the cities were analyzed in three main categories using eleven different parameters. These categories are convex space, axial space and syntactic space. Convex space analyzes were made using the paramters of convex articulation, convex deformation of the grid, grid convexity and convex ringness; axial space analyses were made using the paramters of axial articulation, axial integration of convex space, grid axiality and axial ringness; finally, syntactic space analyses were made using the parameters of integration, intelligibility and synergy. In conclusion, it could be said that historical fabrics of the cities in Turkey have synchronous structures, manifest regular reflections, have organic systems compared with the grid systems, and constitute higher intellibility and synergy.
Citation - WoS: 2
Citation - Scopus: 3
Neo-Liberal Urbanism and Sustainability in Turkey: Commodification of Nature in Gated Community Marketing
(SPRINGER, 2021) Korkmaz, Cansu; Meşhur, Havva Filiz
Neoliberalism arose as a project to reinforce the power of capitalism against the working class in the post-1970 period and created unequal geographies as well as unearned income-oriented urban development practices in which the capital-owning class is operative. As in many other countries, urbanization and the construction sector have been used as important powers in Turkey in absorbing the plus value created by capitalism. After 1980, with the influence of the perspective towards the construction sector and the housing policies of Turkey, luxurious gated communities' production started in metropoles. In an environment of increasing competition, these housing projects started to present nature as a commodity by referring to projects' concepts such as natural life, sustainable environment, eco-friendly, etc. however, in contrast, the living environments they create. This paper aims to evaluate the physical and urban sustainability performances of luxurious gated communities that emphasize natural life and present nature as a commodity by emphasizing natural life and sustainable living environments in Konya by using an indicator-based approach. Even though these new living environments claim to create a sustainable and natural living environment and be eco-friendly projects, it can be seen after the evaluation results that they cannot go further than presenting nature as a commodity. In fact, in this capitalist system, while the construction sector destroys nature, it aims to increase the sales rates of the projects by making use of people's longing for nature.
Citation - WoS: 19
Citation - Scopus: 22
Processing of Anode Slime With Deep Eutectic Solvents as a Green Leachant
(ELSEVIER, 2021) Topçu, Mehmet Ali; Kalem, Volkan; Rüşen, Aydın
This paper describes an efficient process of recovering valuable metals from a copper anode slime sample using green chemicals such as choline chloride (ChCl) based deep eutectic solvents (DESs). The leaching agents include ChCl-urea, ChCl-ethylene glycol, ChCl-urea-ethylene glycol and ChCl/urea-deionized water in a 1:2, 1:2, 1:0.5:1.5, and 1:1 ratio, respectively. Prior to leaching experiments, chemical and mineralogical characterization of copper anode slime was performed. Considerable amount of precious metals was detected in the copper anode slime by chemical analysis. The main phases of copper anode slime detected by XRD and SEM/EDX analysis were namely Cu2O, SnO2, and, PbSO4. After leaching experiments, 97% of copper was recovered from the copper anode slime using ChCl-urea under an optimum condition at 95 degrees C of reaction temperature, 4 h reaction duration and, 1/25 g/mL solid/liquid ratio. The results showed that 91% of silver was extracted from the anode slime under the optimum condition with ChCl-urea DES composition, 95 degrees C reaction temperature, 48 h reaction duration, and 1/10 solid/liquid ratio. Gold was not leachable in the experiment using ChCl based DES with hydrogen bonding reagents such as urea and ethylene glycol. Moreover, the results revealed that PbSO4 was very soluble in DES prepared by ChCl and urea.
Rural Areas as Resilience Spaces in New Regional Development Paradigms: a Research in Case of Rural Areas of Beysehir in Konya
(Istanbul Univ, Fac Letters, Dept Geography, 2021) Karakayacı, Özer; Keser, Firuze
This study was aimed at evaluating the concept of resilience to rural areas in the new regional development paradigms. Rural resilience supported by evolutionary economic geography is considered the method developed against the negativity and practices emanating in the past that mired rural areas. The primary goal of this study, according to this framework, is to investigate the new significance that has been accorded to rural regions because of the paradigm shift. Furthermore, the study's major goal has been determined to be to offer assessments on sample areas on how the development dynamics in favor of cities can find resonance in rural areas. The factors affecting resilience are determined according to economic, ecological, and cultural contexts, and the role of rural areas in the settlement systems in the case of Beysehir are re-discussed. The findings of the study, which employed qualitative analytical methodologies, are expected to provide guidance for future studies on how the challenges highlighted within the framework of the idea of rural resilience will disclose a value chain in terms of rural settlements. Because rural resilience is defined as a rural area's ability to adjust to external situations based on changing living standards, it is more than just the ability to adopt change. Finally, with elements such as local skills and path dependences, it is now possible to prevent the decline of the Beysehir rural areas.
Citation - WoS: 2
A Simulation-Based Accessibility Modeling Approach To Evaluate Performance of Transportation Networks by Using Directness Concept and Gis
(KONYA TECHNICAL UNIV, FAC ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN, 2019) Ertuğay, Kıvanç
Ranging from simple to sophisticated, numerous types of accessibility measures are found in the accessibility modeling literature which helps to understand accessibility of people, place and transportation networks. Transportation network directness (reciprocal is circuity), which is defined as the ratio of the shortest Euclidean distance over network distance between demand (origin) and destination (supply) points, could be considered as an important type of measure for understanding accessibility for a variety of context. Although there are several research and literature on transportation network directness and accessibility modeling, the research that integrates transportation network directness concept into accessibility modeling process in such a way to provide understanding of the overall accessibility performance of the transportation networks without losing the local interactions is quite limited. Based on this idea, the basic aim of this research is to propose a new transportation network directness-based accessibility modeling methodology that could be used to test both the local and the overall accessibility performance of transportation networks in a simple and comparable manner by using GIS. By considering regularly produced virtual origins and destinations on the transportation network in a simulation manner, the proposed methodology could produce travel time/distance based accessibility measures that could operate without a need for real time supply/demand or origin/destination data. The advantage of using a virtual regular data set instead of real time data is that; it is more simple, easy to operate and most importantly, more realistic to understand performance of transportation networks as most of the possible origin/destination scenarios could be represented in the proposed model. The outputs of the model could be widely used by the decision-makers who are supposed to deal with accessibility, location/allocation, and service/catchment area related issues by several aims such as; to test the overall/partial performance of the transportation networks, to understand the weakly connected parts of the transportation network and/or to compare the accessibility performance of different networks with each other. The proposed methodology is applied in 3 cities with different types of transportation network which are Paris, FRANCE (radial network); San Francisco, USA (grid network) and Ankara, TURKEY (mixed network) in order to able to demonstrate the performance and efficiency of the proposed model. The main focus of the case study is not to evaluate specific accessibility conditions or transportation network performance in a detailed manner but to provide a methodological discussion about the proposed directness based accessibility modeling process.
Citation - WoS: 75
Citation - Scopus: 96
Sustainability of Urban Regeneration in Turkey: Assessing the Performance of the North Ankara Urban Regeneration Project
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2020) Korkmaz, Cansu; Balaban, Osman
The increasing environmental footprints of cities necessitated the integration sustainability principles into urban planning and development frameworks. The growing attention on urban sustainability also influenced the policy and the practice of urban regeneration. The quest for new methods for regenerating existing urban quarters in sustainable manners resulted in the concept of sustainable urban regeneration. The concept aims to develop urban regeneration projects in line with the three key pillars of sustainable development. Since the turn of the new millennium, urban regeneration initiatives in Turkish cities have gained a new momentum, mainly due to the increasing interest by public and private sectors. As expected, squatters constituted one of the main focuses of the recent initiatives for urban regeneration. Nevertheless, the Turkish experience of urban regeneration differs from the international experiences in terms of the motivation behind and the scope of the projects. Despite the growing link between sustainability and urban regeneration in international practices, sustainability has not yet been a major motivation for urban regeneration practices in Turkey. This research assesses the sustainability performance of one of the most prominent examples of squatter regeneration in Turkey, namely the North Ankara Urban Regeneration Project (NAURP). The project has been evaluated by means of an indicator-based methodology. The research indicates that the project's contribution to urban sustainability has been minimal and thus, further efforts are required to improve the sustainability performance of urban regeneration projects in Turkey. In the light of this finding, policy implications have been made to push sustainable urban regeneration agenda in Turkey.
Citation - WoS: 1
Syntactic Legibility of Image Elements: Eskisehir Case
(Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, 2021) Topçu, Mehmet; Aköz Çevrimli, Begüm; Geyikli, Hande Busra
This study aims to measure the image perception and spatial legibility of Eskisehir city and to discuss the relationship between image elements and spatial legibility through comparative analysis. Methodologically, the study consists of three stages. (1) A questionnaire was prepared in line with Lynch, Nasar, and Rapoport's approaches to image and urban space perception. This questionnaire was applied to a group of 60 consisting of ordinary people and experts in the form of mutual interviews, and an image map of the city was created as a result of the answers received. (2) An axial map of the city was drawn and integration, connectivity, intelligibility, and synergy parameters were analysed at an urban scale with the axial analysis method using space syntax methodology. (3) Image elements were discussed comparatively in the context of determining numerical parameters. As a result, the perception of the path parameter was the highest; the landmark and node parameters were close to one another and came second, and the district parameter was the last. The study proposes a different methodological approach in order to categorise the image elements in detail, allowing each element to be evaluated numerically, and to discuss on which parameter the perception of the image element is numerically more important.
Citation - WoS: 1
Thinking With Universal Design in Historical Environment
(2018) Tutal, Osman; Topçu, Mehmet
Historical environment is a unique and irreplaceable resource which reflects the social, cultural and economic characteristics of the past societies (Donely, 2011). It is an integral part of local, regional and national cultural idendity. The environment especially consists of historical environment and buildings are significant because of their uses as place where people’s daily life activities. Moreover, meeting of social and cultural assets which societies have been figuring from the past with daily life turns into a resource for a sustainable future. However, it is generally impossible that those buildings which have been constructed in their own terms can satisfy the needs of today. In Turkey where the balance of protecting-using is on behalf of the first one, the protection policies and protection regulations exceedingly limit the intervention to the natural environments. Wishing that historical buildings are actualized into daily life on one hand and clamping down on accessing, visiting and using those buildings on the other hand leads to a serious discrepancy. However, the prominent examples which oversee the balance of protecting-using show that historical environments can be intervened through designing which will create or add values without compromising on protection. All sorts of interventions to be conducted consider the potential needs of the users without giving any harms to the originality of the building. Thus, it is expected that everyone can access the buildup area including the historical buildings, products and services and information equally and under equitable conditions. For that reason, making the built-upenvironment accessible, visitable and usable through universal design is one of the fundamental rights for the people who expand their daily living environment through accessibility and universal design. In this study, accessibility, visitability and usability of Bedesten Historical Site in the city of Konya are discussed through the theme of “Thinking through Universal design” and suggestions of designing are given in various scales (urban scale, street scale and building scale).
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Universal Design in Urban Public Spaces: the Case of Zafer Pedestrian Zone / Konya-Turkey
(2018) Meşhur, Havva Filiz; Yılmaz Çakmak, Bilgehan
Individuals in society who have different requirements and needs (disabled people, elders, children, prengnant women, parents with strollers etc.) go through many difficulties while accessing urban indoor and outdoor services due to the constraints originating from built environment. Universal design is the design of the environment and the product that can be used by all the people. With it's inclusive and unifying characteristics, universal design has become a design approach that have been adopted by the academia during the recent years. Planning and organizing the urban spaces with regard to the universal design principles will contribute to an increase in the life quality of all the people who use the city. This article aims to evaluate the usage of urban spaces in Zafer Pedestrian Zone, located in Konya city centre, within the scope of universal design principles. The concept of universal design in the historical process, universal design's emergence process and it's principles and significances has been discussed in the theoretical infrastructure section of the article. In the fieldwork section of the article, the suitability analysis of a chosen sample place's space usage have been carried out scrutinisingly under four chosen headlines, with regards to the universal design principles and standards.
Citation - WoS: 5
Urban Sprawl and Its Reasons in the Growth Process of Konya Urban Area
(KARE PUBL, 2021) Öncel, Hale; Meşhur, Mehmet Çağlar
Urban sprawl takes place in the literature as a form of growth seen in almost all cities in the world after 1950s. Urban sprawl, which is defined as a low density, leapfrog development towards the periphery of cities, causes ineffective use of urban space and environmental problems. Although increasing population is the most important reason of urban sprawl, other factors are as important as population growth. Generally accepted reasons intend to explain dynamics of sprawl. However, the political, legal, cultural structures, level of development and even urbanization dynamics of the countries have different effects on the urban sprawl process. Therefore, evaluating the factors causes of the sprawl for each country is vital for understanding the process and developing solutions. The aim of this study, in addition to addressing the factors in the literature related to urban sprawl, is to evaluate sprawling dynamics in Turkey and to reveal the factors that cause sprawling in the city of Konya. In the field research, the city of Konya was selected and the changes in the macroform of the city over the years were analyzed using satellite photographs. In addition, the effects of planning on the development of the city were tried to identify by examining city plans. Along with the factors affecting all cities globally, Turkey also has experienced major changes in cities due to its incorporation into the world economy after 1980s and liberal policies. Konya, as one of the cities that expands in a planned manner since the 1940s, has had important implementations in terms of housing/planning policies. In recent years, public and private capital investments have played important role and caused a type of sprawl specific to Konya which took place under the 'control of planning'.

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