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A Study On The Urban / Architectural Transformations In Kecioren District After 1990s

Ankara, being the capital, has been the most important city for the New Modern Turkish State on its way of establishing the modernity project of Turkey. The development of the urban planning projects proceeded on the basis of this aimed concept of the new society, carrying the privilege of being the symbol of the modern republic, prosperity and wealth.

Ke&ccedil / i&ouml / ren is one of the main districts of Ankara. The main aim of this study is to analyze and describe the ideological departure of Ke&ccedil / i&ouml / ren from the concept of the &ldquo / modern&rdquo / Ankara, within the last ten years. Here the attitude of the municipality and its role as the agent of civil power leading the architectural and urban transformation of Ke&ccedil / i&ouml / ren from a district full of gecekondu to one full of &ldquo / decorated sheds&rdquo / will be discussed. Here, the term &ldquo / decorated shed&rdquo / , introduced by Robert Venturi, will be used for the explanation of the new architectural and urban elements Furthermore, the attitude of the society and the architects and contractors who are responsible for the actual case will be brought into argumentation. In this sense, other subsidiary terms will be used to explain the process of the case are / populism and politics, nationalism, the ideology of the Turkish nation (T&uuml / rkl&uuml / k), Turanism, Islamism and orientalism. Additionally, an important building in the district, the Estergon Castle, which has different characteristics from the other parts of the district, will be explained with the terms &ldquo / hyper-reality&rdquo / and &ldquo / kitsch&rdquo / by the explanations of Umberto Eco and Dorfles.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606704/index.pdf
Date01 October 2005
CreatorsPinarevli, Mehmet
ContributorsOgut, Nergis Rana
PublisherMETU
Source SetsMiddle East Technical Univ.
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeM.Arch. Thesis
Formattext/pdf
RightsTo liberate the content for public access

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