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Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 4An Urban Plan Evaluation for Park Accessibility: a Case in Izmir (turkiye)(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2023) Şenol, Fatma; Öztürk, Sevim Pelin; Atay Kaya, İlgiPlan evaluations about park accessibility are rare at the neighbourhood scale. Moreover, urban plans traditionally identify park accessibility with predetermined measurements that may ignore limited walking conditions of children, the elderly, women with children, and low-income groups. Alternatively, this paper considers equitable (rather than equal) park accessibility as an important goal concerning environmental justice. To guide a path to achieving this goal, it investigates how to assess and revise urban plans with parks within walking distance to social groups in the case of a plan (1/1000 scale) in Izmir (Turkiye). Deployment of the location-allocation analysis (a multi-criteria assessment methodology in Geographic Information Systems, GIS) allows this research to consider physical/geographical barriers to walkability in actual neighbourhood settings and reconfigure such barriers as contextual variables, including limited walking distances of disadvantaged groups. Ultimately, this study also contributes to how to handle spatial and demographic data deficiencies in Turkiye when measuring equitable accessibility of public facilities by walking. Results identify an uneven distribution of park accessibility even within the neighbourhood on the plan and the potential for improving park accessibility by designing some non-park public lands with park features.Article Citation - WoS: 13Citation - Scopus: 15The Spatial Configuration and Publicness of the University Campus: Interaction, Discovery, and Display on De Uithof in Utrecht(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2022) Yaylalı Yıldız, Berna; Spierings, Bas; Çil, ElaThis paper explores different degrees and forms of publicness and their relationship with the spatial configuration of a university campus. Based on a literature review, the concept of 'publicness' is developed to describe the dimensions of 'interaction,' 'discovery,' and 'display' on campus. The area selected for the case study is De Uithof campus of Utrecht University, located outside the urban fabric in a green environment. Spatial configuration analysis reveals that the two public spaces most-often used by students have high global and local integration scores as well as medium visibility scores. This promises much potential for the production of publicness in both spaces, whereas student surveys revealed some rather substantial differences in publicness between them. Acknowledging detailed differences in terms of physical design, functional facilities, and social composition enables an explanation for why the Academic Hospital Utrecht space lives up more the potential of publicness production than the Heidelberglaan space.Article Citation - WoS: 14Citation - Scopus: 20Exploring the Effects of Spatial and Social Segregation in University Campuses, Iztech as a Case Study(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2014) Yaylalı Yıldız, Berna; Yamu, Claudia; Çil, ElaThis study focuses on the spatial configuration of university campuses through the case study of Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH), settled outside of the city of Izmir. Isolated university campuses are interesting cases to examine, especially when there is a need to focus on the relationship between the campus life and collective spaces, in which open spaces play a major role. Although these campuses are planned as separate enclaves with the vision that academic life would require isolation, quietness and concentration, we argue that the campus design, especially their open spaces, should generate an interacting community balancing the inward-focused learning. In addition, we suggest that when a university campus fails to facilitate social gatherings through its spaces, both faculty and students are deprived of the fundamental reason of the university's constitution. This article first presents the spatial analysis (space syntax analysis) examining the potentials of the physical configuration of campus for bringing students together. Second, we present the findings of the questionnaire surveying students' choices for spatial practices. Syntax analysis and survey show that locally integrated lines are not supported with activities. Comparison of the frequency of use in actual practice both on the most integrated lines and on areas with strong visibility show that these spaces are not lived up to their potentials. This article is produced from the corresponding author's ongoing PhD dissertation at the Izmir Institute of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, under the supervision of Assist. Prof. Dr. Ela Çil. © 2014 Macmillan Publishers Ltd.