The important positions and proposals of the thesis are firstly the framework posited
for a socially sustainable urban environment, and secondly a proposal for the
parameters of place formation for sustainable urban design. Research into social
sustainability has provided a variety of approaches among which Castells& / #8217 / model for
urban movements have been adapted as a matrix for social organization in terms of
placemaking, highlighting the goals of an urban movement, in this case of a place,
with the citizen as urban actor, against its adversary the historical actor. As for the
parameters of place formation a matrix of place is developed as a tool for urban
design and for measuring urban sustainability. The matrix delineates the six
dimensions of place in terms of the three sustainabilities most strongly involved in
each / to be measured by the indicators of sustainability which are to be achieved by
applying various strategies for urban design.
As a result of the study of the underlying dynamics of the paradigms of
sustainability, place, and place-making, and the shifting role of urban design
necessitated by problems of urbaproposed within a discourse that prefers to see the three sustainabilities in
conjunction and, believes socially sustainable communities to be also
environmentally and economically sustainable- the issue becomes how to facilitate a
place process through urban design.
Place as a social product, and place as an experiential, cognitive construct, place as
object and subject of place-making, and place as a geographically specific, historical
materialist formation are the four vantage points from which to inspect the
juxtapositions and differences of the concept / and may be arrive at a theory of place.
The predilection that sustainability and urbanization can be evaluated via placemaking
stems, on one hand, from a study of the city/urbanization through the works
of Harvey, Castells, Lefebvre and Bookchin who emphasize social space/process in
the face of physical/geometric space / and an architectural background/disposition
which finds place congenial on the other hand.
The paradigm of sustainability and place, and place-making as urban design is
applied to the case of Temelli, Ankara for a critique of sustainable/unsustainable
urbanization. As a geographic, social, economic and historical location within the
Greater Municipality of Ankara, Temelli has been a region of attraction for investors
since the 1990s. What was once a small village planned for settling Balkan
immigrants, became a municipality in 1994 / the land within the municipal
boundaries were increased tenfold, and the region was earmarked for an overspill of
650,000 people from Ankara Metropolitan Area in the next 20 years. Four residential
areas in the region have been assessed comparatively in terms of sustainable urban
forms / and an evaluation of everyday lives have been conducted through surveys and
interviews with residents to observe how and if place as social product evolved / how
the conceived, perceived and lived spaces interacted.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12610343/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 January 2009 |
| Creators | Kural, Nerkis |
| Contributors | Cengizkan, Ali |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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