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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605560/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 December 2004 |
| Creators | El Agouri, Faraj Bubaker |
| Contributors | Gunay, Baykan A |
| 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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