City and Regional Planning / Şehir ve Bölge Planlama
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Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 4Region-Specific Turning Points in Territorial Economic Resilience: A Business Cycle Approach To Turkey(Routledge, 2024) Duran, H.E.; Elburz, Z.; Kourtit, K.; Nijkamp, P.Almost all regional economic resilience studies measure resilience by referring to national time patterns of recessions. This study of region-specific patterns of resilience of 81 Turkish regions in the period 2009–20 and their underlying economic/demographic determinants in regions in Turkey shows that ignoring the different timings of regional and national economy recessions leads to misleading/biased results. The study shows first that provincial employment cycles are asynchronous. Second, the geographical pattern of resistance to the last 2018 economic crisis changes considerably when using province-specific rather than national turning points. Third, those provinces that are more open to trade, export- oriented, highly urbanised, and with a low level of human capital and entrepreneurial activities were more resistant to the recession. © 2023 Regional Studies Association.Article Using Personal Rapid Transit as an Effective Transport Solution in Historical Downtown Areas: a Case From Historic Kemeraltı, İzmir(TMMOB Şehir Plancıları Odası, 2023) Duvarcı, Yavuz; Akpınar, FigenMany issues related to the conservation of urban heritage are closely related to the transit system and the use of private trans-portation. Regeneration, revitalization, and/or heritage conser-vation are not properly managed due to problems arising directly from inconvenient transport solutions that cannot provide or resolve the accessibility and mobility needs of vulnerable groups together with inappropriate space management while indirectly causing economic shrinkage and loss of vitality. Furthermore, even if modern modes of transportation are used, they will cause significant environmental and societal difficulties, making them unsuitable for such sensitive places. This article, using a micro -simulation approach, investigates whether a Personal Rapid Tran-sit system is physically applicable, and whether it can meet exist-ing travel requirements to prove that it is sufficient for the needs of local level mobility, and finally whether other environmental/ social impacts such that land use, air pollution, safety, sustainabil-ity are positive or negative. As a method, these outputs of the system application are presented as validations of the usefulness of the PRT. Finally, it was found that there is a gain in productiv-ity in terms of mobility as well as other socio-economic benefits besides the physical applicability of the method. The study's goal is to get the information out about how PRT technology may help produce more ecologically friendly and sustainable solutions while also conserving historical assets.Article The Relationship Between Transportation Demand and Supply: Granger-Causality Test Using Time-Series Data(Pamukkale Üniversitesi, 2022) Duvarcı, Yavuz; Duran, Hasan EnginTransport demand and supply are deemed to determine each other in a cyclic manner. The major idea has been that the demand is usually the preceding one. However, in urban cases, usually the land use variables in place of supply interfere this process. Cleansing the land use variables, the regional/national level variable pairs of demand and supply are employed to analyze the cause-effect mechanism. For objectivity, the Granger-causality test (GCT) is used to understand the relationship between transportation demand and supply. The Analyses were made at four dimensions; (a)whether the nexus is one-directional or bi-directional, (b)its significance level, (c)whether demand or supply is the preceding, (d)whether the effects are short-term or long-term. Using the Turkish statistics, the GCT results showed that, in the short/medium run, overwhelmingly the supply variables preceded (mostly in railway mode), mostly unidirectional (one-way causality) manner, however, in the long-run almost no relationship was found. In other transportation modes, no significant relationship is observed. Finally, bi-directional relations were usually observed in suburban rail. The investments then should be made according to known demand. Usually, the effects of supply (especially of railways and roadways) could rather fade away in the long-run. Still, no general statement can be made for the demand/supply causality especially in terms of which one is preceding and of the direction of causality. The chaotic nature of the process reigns over with the changing conditions.Article The Assessment of the Criteria of Social Infrastructure Within the Scope of Women-Friendly City Planning Approach: The Example of Çiğli(Konya Teknik Üniversitesi, 2022) Güney, Mercan Efe; Tuncay, Beste; Tanrıverdi, Sıdal; Şanlı, Nurseli; Akbudak, Hacer; Ay, FilizThere is a close parallel between the freedom, equality and socialization that the residents in a social sett??ng are enjoying and the openness and equal availability of the social infrastructure in this setting. When these points are taken into consideration, it is possible to get the idea that social infrastructure areas should be planned as woman-friendly city criteria. So long as the urban planning fails to accomplish this task of creating a due process and language for gender equality, the social infrastructure areas in the cities will continue to pose a serious problem to the gender equality. In this article, an attempt has been made to articulate some suggestions for evaluating the social infrastructure areas in the light of woman-friendly city planning. This article offers some gu??delines for deciding which data should be taken into consideration and how the social infrastructure areas should be examined. The study analyzes social infrastructure areas following four categories: adequacy, accessibility, safety and usability. The findings revealed that no social infrasurcture areas met these criteria, especially in the densely used areas. The lack of face-to-face interviews with women is the shortcoming of the study. The study is one of the first studies on the subject, but it is thought that it will contribute to the field literature with its review and recommendation codes.Article İzmir Narlıdere'de kentsel dönüşüm projesinin uygulanmasında gecekondu maliklerinin karşılaşabileceği sorunlar(İdeal Kent Yayınları, 2021) Uysal, Ayça; Arslan Avar, AdileBased on the Critical Urban Theory, the study addresses the housing problem of the poor against neoliberal housing production in İzmir. The problem of research is the dispossession of the poor with the rent gap pressure created by neoliberal housing production. The situation of the poor living in the squatter area of the Narlıdere, İkinci İnönü Neighborhood against the neoliberal housing production is examined. The study is methodologically pluralistic and it is based on institutional, spatial, and digital data, quantitative and qualitative field study. The squatter area is surrounded by luxury housing development and was declared as an area under disaster risk according to law number 6306. The transformation project which directly affects the squatter housing residents has been planning. The transformation project is market-based and focuses on spatial transformation. The research findings and Housing Affordability Index calculations which take the housing prices and household income into account show that the urban renewal process will result in slum clearance and residents of the squatters may encounter social, economic, and spatial problems.Article Kültürlerarası karşılaşmaların gönüllüler üzerindeki etkileri: kapsayıcı bir toplum için sosyal sorumluluk(Sosyoloji Derneği, 2022) Uştuk, Ozan; Can Traunmüller, IşınThis study focuses on the experiences of university students who participate in the volunteering activities of the Civic Engagement Projects Coordinatorship of the İzmir Institute of Technology. Civic engagement projects aim to contribute in developing of the democratic and participatory identity of university students through their volunteering experiences and to actively engage them in transformations for an inclusive society. In this context, the Civic Engagement Projects Coordinatorship supports volunteers to develop intercultural dialogue with diverse social groups through field projects. However, these dialogues may be challenging experiences that trigger a sense of anxiety and require volunteers to utilize adaptive competencies. In order to understand the impacts of intercultural dialogue on such volunteers, in-depth interviews were conducted with 43 university students who volunteered from 2016 to 2020. This study aims to understand the difficulties experienced by the volunteers in the field and discover their coping mechanisms. Based on the data obtained, the study identifies the methods that facilitated the students’ field experiences; additionally, essential insights are obtained regarding the improvements that the Civic Engagement Projects Coordinatorship needs to undertake in process management.Conference Object Citation - Scopus: 2Lighting Quality and Work Performance Based on Glazing Types and Dynamic Led Lighting(IEEE, 2022) Köse, Fatma Büşra; Tayfur, Gökmen; Duran, Hasan Engin; Kazanasmaz, Zehra TuğçeThe combination of daylight characteristics and LED lighting quantities determines offices' visual environment. Lighting conditions can influence office workers' health and work performance. This study is an experimental one containing lighting measurements in two offices, subjective performance tests, and questionnaires to find out how work performance, lighting preferences, and satisfaction with lighting quality modify in terms of various glass types and dynamic LED lighting quantities. Glass types have strong impacts on contrast tests on paper and luminance which are corresponding to work performance. Regarding lighting quality, it strongly relates to the homogeneity of light, the impression of artificial light and the perception of objects' textures and color, contrast balance between paper and the surrounding. When the glass was modified in offices, we observed that participants preferred to change the CCT setting of LED by remote control, and in relation to that the eye-level illuminance and SPDs showed significant changes. So, the findings depicted the importance of the choice of glass types concerning LED lighting settings in terms of the above variables.Book Part An Evaluation of Measuring the Publicness Level of Interiors in Public Building Design: Visual Graph Analysis (vga) Approach(IGI Global, 2021) Aykutlar, Pelin; Kutucu, Seçkin; Can Traunmüller, IşınThis study examines the publicness level of the interior spaces of public buildings. As a method, VGA (visual graph analysis) is used for analyzing the early design phases of selected municipal service buildings. In this study, the authors utilized from VGA for quantifying the publicness level of the two selected architectural competitions of municipality buildings. The method allows us analyzing the floor plans of each project in obtaining an eventual assessment of permeability and accessibility which give an idea of the levels of publicness comparatively. Subsequently, representation parameters are compared under two main criteria: connectivity and integration. The aim of the study is to understand the level of publicness and efficiency of spatial settings for the users circulating in the public buildings, which have dissimilar plan schemes. This method would be used by the designers for early design stage and provide useful feedback for understanding the level of accessibility and permeability of the structures and adjust their schemes accordingly.Article Perceived Safety and Affecting Factors in Urban Neighborhoods(Süleyman Demirel, 2021) Gerçek, Deniz; Güven, İsmail TalihThis study intends to explore how various aspects of safety such as criminal acts, public order, and sense of community contribute to ‘perceived safety’. A questionnaire was applied to 1050 individuals that comprise the sample set living within the urban sprawl of İzmit city. People were asked to rate their evaluations on a set of safety issues in the neighborhood they live, such as crime acts, public disorder, community relationships. Investigating relevance of these issues versus perceived safety is important to understand characteristics of perceived safety in an urbanizing city subject to industrialization and immigration. Primary demographic variables: gender, age, income, and education level were also explored for their relation with perceived safety in the city. Using the quantitative method of surveying and statistical analysis, several outcomes were inferred. Accordingly, perceived safety in the city is highly associated with peoples’ opinion about crime incidences and other safety and public order issues. Community attachment has a moderate influence on perceived safety, where more connected communities are likely to feel more safe. Descriptive statistics and tests showed that perceived safety with respect to gender differs, where female feel less safe. Perceived safety versus education level and income also showed some sort of relation pattern. However, this was attributed to the fact that poor and disintegrated urban neighborhoods are more likely to suffer from crime, rather than poverty brings lack of feel of safety.Using the quantitative method of surveying and statistical analysis, several outcomes were inferred. Accordingly, perceived safety in the city is highly associated with peoples’ opinion about crime incidences and other safety and public order issues. Community attachment has a moderate influence on perceived safety, where more connected communities are likely to feel more safe. Descriptive statistics and tests showed that perceived safety with respect to gender differs, where female feel less safe. Perceived safety against education level and Perceived safety against income also showed some sort of relation pattern. However, this was attributed to the fact that poor and disintegrated urban neighborhoods are more likely to suffer from crime, rather than poverty brings lack of feel of safety.Article Do Spatial Development Plans Provide Spatial Equity in Access To Public Parks: a Case With a Residential Area in Karabağlar and Buca (i̇zmir)(TMMOB Şehir Plancıları Odası, 2022) Öztürk, Sevim Pelin; Şenol, FatmaPublic parks' location is one of the major factors shaping their accessibility. Many natural and physical features (e.g., topography, stream ways, street network, traffic density, road junctions, and land uses) affect walking distances from dwellings to these loca- tions. Also, the cost of access (measured in time and meter) to these locations vary among age groups with different walk- ing capacities. Spatial plans in Turkey are the documents for de- termining and implementing the allocation of parks. However, plan-making practices have limitations in considering the park accessibility by walking among different groups of dwellers. This study considers the accessibility of public parks as an issue of spatial equity. It evaluates the park accessibility at a recent spatial plan about a residential area in Karabağlar and Buca Districts of İzmir. It aims to assess the allocations of planned parks and propose potential locations for new park areas. With a point- based approach to park accessibility, the study analysis performs the Location-Allocation (LA) Analysis with multiple criteria at Geographic Information Systems. The results show that at the plan, the specified residential area has spatial inequities with park accessibility. Among the other planned public service areas, some locations can be re-planned as new park areas, which partially im- proves spatial inequities at the plan. Also, the study is an example of how to prepare and run the data for the spatial analysis of allocations of public service areas with the help of GIS in Turkey