This master thesis comprizes of a comparative study between two neighborhoods
in two different cities: Nezu-Tokyo and Ortakoy-Istanbul. Although two cities that have
been chosen seem incomparable in many respects, the study scale &ndash / neighborhoodsprovide
a deeper apprehension to understand the differences or similarities that the two
cultures and their architecture share. In the master thesis, the main factors that form,
constitute, and limit the neighborhoods, with the help of the photographical medium, will
be analyzed.
Japanese and Turkish Culture, despite the fact that they belong to different
geographies, share a certain closeness and intimacy. In the two cultures, it is possible to
observe that, there exists (at least within certain cultural areas) an attempt to protect
internal harmonies against the effects of globalizarion. After experiencing the similar
characteristics of urban space in these two neighborhoods, this study has focused on the
creation of space, within the help of atmoshere and boundary concepts, within a
theoretical frame drawn by an aesthetical approach.
Although the cities that were chosen are very large in scale, the neighborhoods
which were chosen still carry a local character, where citizens spend most of their time and
closely affect their surroundings. It could also be claimed that, positioned between
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architectural and urban scale, neighborhoods constitute the different faces of a city. In a
neighborhood that posseses both traditional characters and effects of urbanization at the
same time, we can observe the social habits and individual diversities, rules of a city
planning and flux of different ingredients that form the metropolitan and daily life, and
neighbor relations.
In this regard, my intention, with the close-scope study of two neighborhoods, is
to make a research to indicate the very distinct ways to create space and the ways in which
everyday life is conveyed, within the context of two different cultures.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12612098/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 May 2010 |
| Creators | Esen, Yadigar |
| Contributors | Erzen, Jale |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.Arch. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for METU campus |
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