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The Attitudes Of Responsible Local Agencies Towards DisabilityCaglayan Gumus, Deniz 01 August 2008 (has links) (PDF)
&ldquo / New paradigm of disability&rdquo / relates not only to persons but also to the
environment they are living in. Therefore recent studies concentrate on the
dynamic interplay of the persons and the environment, rather than rather than
studying them as separate entities. This approach has revealed that disabled
people become handicapped when they face with barriers restricting or impeding
their activities in daily life.
Physical, cultural and social barriers have been undertaken by many
countries after substantial debate. In the United Kingdom and Japan for instance,
disability and accessibility issues have been tackled with reference to disabled
people&rsquo / s demands and long-tem struggles against discriminatory implementations
in the past. In these countries, whilst disability issue has been discussed,
accessibility legislation including numerous measurements for implementation has
been enacted and a considerable progress for removing barriers and providing
accessibility in the built environment has been experienced through many
institutional instruments.
In Turkey, although there are now a lot of legislative measurements for
accessibility, little progress is observed in recent years. Barriers in the built
environment are still restricting, and even hindering full participation of disabled
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people to social life. The problem of inaccessibility is seen related to practice
rather than legislation or theoretical frameworks in Turkey. Since they are a part of
the bureaucratic system having responsibility on the planning and designing of
built environment, local agencies with their administrative and technical staff and
organisation gain importance in terms of maintaining accessibility to the disabled.
The study aims to provide information about attitudes of local agencies towards
disability and accessibility in terms of practitioners rather than users. This study
interrogates the knowledge level and outlooks of the related personnel and works
of local agencies about disability and accessibility.
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Citizenship Rights Of Gypsies In Turkey:cases Of Roma And Dom CommunitiesOnen, Selin 01 February 2011 (has links) (PDF)
This study aims to compare Roma community in Edirne and Dom
community in Diyarbakir with regard to their integration levels to different majorities (respectively Turks in Edirne and Kurds in Diyarbakir) and belonging to the political body (state), access to citizenship rights (civil, social, political and cultural) and the affect of transnational citizenship on Roma and Dom communities. The main argument of this study asserts that Roma community can have more access to citizenship rights than Dom community. This is related with the fact that Roma community lives with Turks, who are the ethnic majority in Edirne and in Turkey, whereas Dom community lives mostly with Kurds, who are the majority in Diyarbakir but minority in Turkey. Foremost, Roma community
has closer connections with state and transnational space than Dom community. The study has found that ethnicity appears as a common barrier for both communities in benefiting from full citizenship. However, it is noted that they experienced different historical, social and economic transformations. Social exclusion is observed at different levels for the two communities. Hence, the study tries to explain why the equality principle of citizenship is ruptured for both communities. While forced migration in 1990s and the gradual loss of musician craft were key factors for the exclusion of Dom community in the labor market,Roma community with affect of agricultural modernization, has repositioned themselves in terms of ethnicity and class formation in last 40-50 years owing mainly to urbanization and modernization. The study has found that Dom community has very limited citizenship rights compared to Roma community. The differences can be obviously seen with regard to impact of poverty and their integration levels to the majority.
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Privacy And Segregation As A Basis For Analyzing And Modelling The Urban Space Compositionof The Libyan Traditional CityEl Agouri, Faraj Bubaker 01 December 2004 (has links) (PDF)
ABSTRACT
PRIVACY AND SEGREGATION AS A BASIS FOR ANALYZING AND
MODELLING THE URBAN SPACE COMPOSITION OF
THE LIBYAN TRADITIONAL CITY
CASE STUDY: THE CITY OF GHADAMES
Faraj Abubaker El-Agouri
Ph.D., Department of City and Regional Planning
Supervisor: Asoc. Dr. Baykan Gunay
October, 296 pages
The study examines the spatial and visual privacy in different areas within the walled
city of Ghadames, where different ethnic communities live in distinct localities.
Conceptual and theoretical notions of privacy are tested, whose ultimate value is
further refinement of privacy regulation conceptually and operationally.
Complexities of privacy as a concept and its regulation are clarified through theory
and extracted spatio-cultural information about physical settings created by these
communities. The space syntax and isovist field analysis are applied as an integrated
methodology. The study demonstrates usefulness and adaptability of this integrated
approach, which provides a fairly definitive interpretation (i.e. understanding) of
physical settings of the city that residents as well as visitors perceive as regulating
privacy, and where privacy fits into the user&rsquo / s perception.
The structure of the thesis can be understood as consisting of three parts. Part one
includes literature about privacy definition, functions, regulating mechanisms,
framework within the context of culture as well as the interface between private and
public spaces. Second part introduces theory of space syntax and concept of visibility
graph analysis (Isovist field). It also introduces the case study of Ghadames, field
survey and observations. It illuminates the inhabitants&rsquo / lifestyle, and show how they
label spaces by function, gender and user identity. Part three analyses syntactically
and visually the spatial structures for the whole walled city as well as the nine
selected ethnic communities as embedded within the city and in isolation.
In brief, this study attempts to observe and quantify physical settings as privacy
regulation mechanisms that operate within context of culture. Mechanisms are the
physical elements that facilitate or impede privacy regulation in the city and/or
enable users themselves to regulate privacy through their own locales. The elements
are composed of field characteristics and barriers. Field characteristics regulate
privacy by perceptually altering the physical context through shape, size, orientation,
and environmental conditions. Barriers regulate privacy physically and symbolically
through walls, screens, objects, and symbols.
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