Master Degree / Yüksek Lisans Tezleri
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Master Thesis Integration of Archaeological Sites Into Planning Process: the Case of Iskele (urla)(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2021) Erincik, Sedef; Saygın, NicelThe archaeological sites in the cities have been undergoing reconstruction activities after the Second World War. It has been emphasized that the archaeological sites that have emerged in many cities are important cultural heritage. Various studies have been carried out to integrate these areas into planning processes. Cities in Turkey, it has seen continuously inhabited since the early stages. Although the integration of archaeological sites in cities into the planning processes has been on the agenda since the 1990's in our country, current policies and strategies do not allow these areas to be integrated into the planning processes. Integrating the archaeological sites in the cities into the planning process will preserve the multi-layered structure of historical cities and prevent the destruction of archaeological remains during investments in these areas. In the study, it is discussed how to integrate archaeological sites in cities into the planning process, and in order to do that, firstly, the international and national legal frameworks which include the archaeological sites in the cities are evaluated. Afterwards, the successful examples in Europe are examined and what these examples can add to archaeological sites in historical cities in Turkey and Iskele (Urla) have been discussed. As a case study, the significance and the planning process of the archaeological sites in Iskele (Urla) have been examined. A survey was conducted with the people living around the archaeological sites and in-depth interviews with the excavation directors who carried out excavation work in the archaeological sites. According to the results of the survey, it was concluded that the inhabitants of the archaeological sites were also affected by the inability to integrate these areas into planning processes. As a result of all this, recommendations have been developed to ensure that the archaeological sites in historical cities in Turkey and particularly in Iskele (Urla) are integrated into planning processes.Master Thesis Integration of Inherited Water Management Systems With Contemporary Nature-Based Solutions: the Case of Bodrum, Turkey(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2020) Çömez, Fatma Öykü; Saygın, NicelWater, as an indispensable source of life, is considered as a scarce resource due to excessive consumption, pollution, climate change, and poor management practices. As water scarcity is being felt more and more every day around the world, innovative and creative solutions have gained an emergency for cities. Instead of conventional solutions, city managements are searching for sensitive solutions to nature and local. Turkey is already facing the problems of water scarcity due to its semi-arid climate susceptive to climate change; however, the conventional approach dominates water management. Bodrum is chosen as the case study area because it has its own water collection methods used for centuries by local population and have been emerged as a cultural heritage. The aim of the thesis is to propose environmentally sensitive and effective solutions to the water scarcity of the peninsula by combining the local water heritage methods and contemporary nature-based water supply techniques. In the study, water management methods of different historical cities are examined. Later, the current water problems and different management techniques from around the world are discussed. Additionally, approaches of countries are discussed to understand concepts and implementations. In the case study, the water problems and management history of the Bodrum Peninsula are investigated. The current situation analyses and a survey are conducted. With the obtained data, a guide which presents integrated strategies to combine the local water heritage methods and innovative nature-based techniques have been developed for the Bodrum Peninsula.Master Thesis Stormwater Management in Cities as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy: Case of Halkapınar District (izmir, Turkey)(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Ballar, Zeynep; Saygın, NicelWater scarcity, one of the effects of climate change, has started to affect the world. Stormwater acting a main role in how the world mitigates and adapts to the effects of climate change. Cities need strategies to manage the influx of stormwater. One of these strategies is the capture and re-use of stormwater instead of run off. This thesis deals with the studies that can be carried out in urban areas within the framework of stormwater management as a climate change adaptation strategy. In this context, this study treats stormwater as an asset. Thus, preventing stormwater from producing runoff or causing floods, shows what can be done in the city to capture and even re-use again. This thesis focuses on the use of green infrastructure to increase urban resiliency to climate change and natural hazards. In this study, firstly, the theoretical literature about climate change and stormwater management are examined. Then several different projects implemented throughout the world and Turkey are investigated. It has been shown that how these examples can be used as inspiration in Halkapınar District of İzmir. Subsequently, the stormwater infrastructure of İzmir from the antiquity to the present has been researched within the scope of water management. As a result of this study, what can be done for Halkapınar district is proposed. For this purpose, regional analyzes were examined first. As a result of the analyzes, the studies that can be done for stormwater are explained. This study is intended to be a guide for future studies stormwater management in cities.Master Thesis Critical Review Of City Branding: Case Study Of Hacı Memiş District (alaçatı, Turkey)(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Erdoğan, Cansu; Saygın, NicelThis thesis examines the city branding process with a critical view in the case of Hacı Memiş District in Alaçatı, İzmir. In this context, the study is aimed to criticize city branding approach as an internationally research domain characterized by a multidisciplinary research. Actually, it investigates and analyzes the controversial issues of city branding. The case study of thesis, Alaçatı that has been defined as a recent phenomenon of city branding in Turkey from 2000s, is a historical settlement in İzmir Peninsula. Within the scope of the study, the surveys and in-depth interviews with groups of business owners, locals, visitors and pioneers in Alaçatı provided the study data to reveal the dynamics and direction of the transformation. The study also focuses on the context and background of the settlement, chronological processing of historical developments, social, demographic and economic structure, land uses, plans in different scales, projects and planning decisions, to show implications of city branding on the place and target groups, especially, the locals. The aim of this study is to assess the branding story of Alaçatı in detail for disclosing a spatial, social, economic and quality of life implications on the locals. Research findings indicates that, the branding process of Alaçatı has brought about a radical transformation in Alaçatı. These impacts have caused varied tendencies, particularly, "gentrification" and in parallel with the gentrification in cities, "displacement" tookplace in Alaçatı.Master Thesis Measures To Prevent Possible Risks of Cultural Tourism on Loss of Place Identity in Historic Settlements: Case of Saburhane District, Muğla(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Polat, Fulya; Saygın, Nicel; Saygın, NicelThe cultural heritage conservation approach evolved from preservation of monumental structures, to preservation of historic fabric and living within existing texture. In case of conservation-oriented practices in historic settlements proposed functions for settlements to continue to live are generally tourism-oriented. When tourism-oriented implementations are examined, it is seen that the life in historic texture has been gentrified. In this context, this thesis discusses the relationship between cultural tourism and loss of place identity through Saburhane district in Muğla city center. A survey was conducted with the inhabitants of the district to understand the identity of the Saburhane and interviews were conducted with the authorized persons to understand the viewpoints of Muğla Metropolitan Municipality and Menteşe Municipality on the conservation of historic texture and existing lifestyle in the district. The Saburhane Street Rehabilitation Project has been examined in terms of the method and process followed. The surveys showed that Saburhane has continued to be alive for a long time, the residents of the neighborhood has been observed to be highly attached on the settlement. However, the most important problems identified are the uncared physical texture, the inability of the inhabitants to maintain their buildings due to low income levels and the physical condition of the buildings getting worse to live. Despite the participatory approach being followed in the Saburhane Street Rehabilitation Project, cultural tourism demands of the Municipalities requires preventions within new proposals to be developed in order to minimize the risk of loss of place identity.Master Thesis Site Management in Conservation Areas: a Case Study of Pergamon(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Altan, Pınar; Saygın, NicelCultural sites, historical buildings and monuments have become an essential part of the living areas. They are defined as memory of the area and must be preserved. UNESCO World Heritage Convention has studies about conservation since 1972 as World Heritage Areas which have outstanding universal value for humanity. Nowadays if an area is accepted as World Heritage Site, a Management Plan Guide would be a necessity. Although the Management Plan concept takes place in Turkish legislation the disputes are still going on because of lack of manual. Through the continuing debates this study aims to develop a Management Plan Guide for efficient conservation of World Heritage Areas. In the study the heritage and management are considered as the main concern. A Management Plan Guide constituted via advisory bodies‟ recommendations for guiding the conservation areas. Additionally, different management plan cases are held from all around the World and Turkey and these examples helped to find out the importance of the monitoring phase in a management plan. In the case of Pergamon there is already an existing Management Plan since 2017. Due to examined cases and studies an alternative guide was developed for the next Management Plan according to the legal system in Turkey.Master Thesis Reclaiming Ecological Sustainability of Urban Streams by Use of Green Infrastructure Techniques(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2016) Aksoy, Selçuk; Saygın, NicelEcological sustainability of urban streams has been significantly reversed from the last quarter of the 20th century onwards. This reverse has occurred as a result of increasing urbanisation and human activity, including construction in floodplain areas, relocation and culverting of streams, channelization, riparian clear-cut, and discharge of wastewater into streams. However, on comprehending the significance of urban streams, ecologically-based stream rehabilitation projects have been preferred to hard engineering solutions. These rehabilitation projects not only restore stream ecosystems but also reclaim their contribution to urban landscapes through the provision of ecological, social, and cultural assets. Based on the above, this study sets out to examine urban stream rehabilitation in the context of sustainable water management. In that regard, this research suggests an integrated and holistic approach through green infrastructure tools which can compensate for misguided human interventions on nature, and reclaim ecological sustainability of urban streams and their environs. In line with ecological sustainability, best practices from various countries and the case study of the research evidenced how the degraded stream ecosystem could be rehabilitated by using green infrastructure techniques. The research methodology used in the study involves analysis of the theoretical literature on green infrastructure and stream rehabilitation, best practice analysis, and case study analysis to develop a rehabilitation guideline for Arap Stream and its surroundings. In this sense, the research presents urban-scale, district-scale and neighbourhood-scale rehabilitation strategies for the case study. Finally, the study delivers the rehabilitation plan for Arap Stream that includes in-stream and green infrastructure techniques.Master Thesis Place-Making: Examination of Practices in Turkey(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2015) Kuru, Ömür Damla; Saygın, NicelPlace-making is an approach which represents a comprehensive framework in building public places with a major concern of assigning functions in an ongoing process. The major point that place-making distinguishes from the former approaches is underlining the process of making instead of the certain product of design. This thesis is a descriptive study which aims to explain the making process of contemporary practice in Turkey. The perceptions of privacy and publicness concepts in Turkish Culture are different than they are in Western Culture. These two cultures are similarly affected by recent movements against top-down policies which lead commodification of commons. Pressures cause reactions such as Wall Street Occupation and Occupation of Tahrir Square. When we consider Turkey, we see that the place-making process is driven by NGOs and platforms that advocate right to the city similar to worldwide movements. In this thesis place-making process in Turkey is introduced with its traditional background and its contemporary break through. Three types of bottom-up movements are taken as cases that are selected from Istanbul, the primary city of Turkey and under a great pressure of construction. Gezi Park Occupation, Kuzguncuk Farm Reaction and Don Quixote House Occupation and Yeldeğirmeni Neighborhood Revitalization are analyzed through main components of making process; actors, processes and outcomes. It is remarked that place-making process draws a distinct identity rather than the traditional approach to public places and aims to protect commons by advocating right to the city in different social contexts that reflect the complexity of place-making process.Master Thesis Transformation of Public Space: a Case of Konak Square, Izmir(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2007) Can, Işın; Saygın, NicelRecently public spaces world-wide have regained their significance through image-led regeneration projects under the control of private or public authorities in order to recreate the image of the city. In addition to this, cities start to use these projects en route for taking place in the competition of becoming a .World City.. This thesis tackles with the problem of transformation of public spaces into quasipublic spaces through the impacts of globalization and regeneration projects along with the issue that these spaces are becoming products of image-led projects in spite of community-based projects. The aim of this study is to find out how local authorities of Turkish cities are reshaping public spaces of their cities as well as how these regenerated spaces correspond with the community needs. On the other hand, to discuss in what points Konak Square, the historical town centre of zmir, opposes or matches with the issues in the literature in terms of its degree of publicness whether it is a true-public space or not. In this regard, recently refurbished Konak Square in the centre of zmir, which has experienced various transformations under the control of public authorities, has been evaluated from the perspective of the user and local authorities. For this purpose, an interview has been conducted with the zmir Metropolitan Municipality that oversaw the implementation of the project and Konak Square.s role in construction of zmir.s image has been examined. Besides using postoccupancy evaluation method, systematic evaluation of existing or designed outdoor spaces-buildings, observations and questionnaires have been used as research methods of this study. Later findings of the study have been assessed through the successfulness criteria for public spaces (uses and activities, comfort and image, access and linkage, sociability). Consequently, despite the public space examples from abroad, partnership between public and private as well as public participation do not exist in refurbishment of Konak Square. Konak Square is totally under the control and maintenance of public sector. However, recent project could not entirely accomplish the successfulness criteria for public spaces but it is not a quasi public space either.Master Thesis The Morphological and the Urban Characteristics of the Monumental Building Complexes in Ottoman Capitals(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2004) İşcanlı, Sinecan; Saygın, NicelThis thesis deals with the analysis of a very important feature of the Ottoman cities, which is the Ottoman Monumental Complex. The concept of the monumental complex is defined as the core of social life in an Ottoman city. The typical Ottoman city has the most dominant features that make the historians specify it in a specific classification, but not among other classifications. Within time it has formed its characteristic features as a result of many different influences such as religion, geographical location, the conquests and the inheritances from the previous cultures. This makes the features of the Ottoman city unique but at the same time resembling the features of other cultures.In most of the previous studies, the Ottoman monumental complex is examined in terms of its architectural features. However it is seen that the concept has a deeper meaning when it is examined in terms of urban design and the social structure of the city. It has the significance of being shaped in accordance with Ottoman urban design pattern, has the responsibility of having a monumental value and having an important social task as a result of including a complex of different functions within itself. The study defines Ottoman Monumental complexes in Bursa and Edirne by means of their morphological criteria, origins, location, programs, and also by means of spatial and visual characteristics.