Since 1960s, the scope of urban design broadened in a way that to control the
formation process of urban space as a whole. In this respect urban coding became a
distinct branch in urban planning as an integrating mechanism of planning and
design processes. Thus, design control has become a crucial part of the development
control systems especially in the western countries. Although the development
legislation in Turkey as an urban coding system has various weaknesses about urban
design and design control, it provides important tools to control urban form from
macro scale to micro scale. Aim of this study is to analyze the capabilities and
deficiencies of the development legislation in Turkey as a design control system.
The mostly stated complaint about the planned areas in the cities of Turkey is the
loss of diversity and peculiar character of settlements as a result of the
homogenization of their spatial pattern, namely apartmentalization. This problem is
basically related with the exclusion of urban design from the planning process. The
planning approach in Turkey merely oriented to readjustment of property appropriate
to small-scale development, ignoring the concerns in regard to urban design.
Therefore, beyond a technical fault resulting from the legislation, this is an outcome
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of the way legal tools are used that does not realize the value of potentia l possibilities
in the legislation.
However, if the legal tools are used efficiently in an approach that bring the
considerations of urban design into fore, it might be possible to come out with more
satisfactory environments in terms of diversity and richness of urban space. This is
the basic hypothesis examined in this study.
In this context, firstly the relation between urban coding and design is investigated in
its historical development and a hierarchical model for design control is defined.
Then the development legislation in Turkey is evaluated in the frame of this model.
Finally, territorial hierarchy of space is taken up as a design criterion and the
capacity of legal tools in control of the transitional zones, which are critical elements
of territorial hierarchy, is examined.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1042878/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 January 2004 |
| Creators | Bas, Yener |
| Contributors | Barlas, Adnan |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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