Convivial urban spaces: The case of Sakarya Street, Ankara(Turkey)
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2016
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This study focuses on the necessity of socio-spatial experiences of people, which are gained from public space specifically from streets that are subject to urban design approaches. Besides analysis of geographical, physical and managerial dimensions of the place, that are associated to urban design and planning processes, it reveals the deficiencies about including the psychological effects on the place on people via their senses, in other words, the information gathered through experiences to design process. By this way, it aims to explain the structure of the relationship between daily experiences of people and spatial formation of a street, and public life and public place. Hence, this research is structured with Convivial Urban Design approach, which brings together the emotions and psychology of people along with these kinds of urban design.
In this context, Sakarya Street which is located in the centre of Kızılay, Ankara (Turkey) is investigated. Kızılay has gained importance as a new bureaucratic and politic centre after proclamation of the republic, however, the period after 1980, covers the course which is determinant for consumer policy. Although, people were actively spending their time at Kızılay, car centred design approaches had changed it into a place where the main transportation type is transformed from pedestrian to motor vehicles. The Sakarya Street, which is the one of the main arterial of the city centre, has conserved its importance as being one of the limited pedestrian streets that appealing to people of various portions of city with respects to different age and gender from past to present.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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