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Place Attachment in the Urban Design Guides: Case of Buca
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018) Bayram, Arzu; Velibeyoğlu, Koray
This study investigates physical ties of inhabitants, to Dumlupınar neighbourhood and its surroundings where situated in the district of Buca and has a conservation plan, in the context of urban design guides. While cities has faced with losing their identities in the present times, conservation plans are assets in this sense but only not sufficient enough by themselves. Technical specifications, which constitute a framework for the implementation of conservation plans, are used as a standardized template, without any specific definitions. This situation ignores the identity of each place and the historical processes it undergoes and prevents its ability to carry its values to the future. Urban design guides are the tools that makes more explicit definitions on plans by taking into account the specific development processes of each place. In this sense, urban design guides must be considered as a whole with development plans. This makes sure of cities that have different identities can be more liveable and transferable to the future. As a result, the content of the meaning of places where people grow feelings to, can be evaluated in terms of urban design guides in order to make places liveable.
Ethnic Oven Units in Kadifekale, Izmir: Investigating a Migrant Cultural Heritage as a Unique Socio-Spatial Phenomenon
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018) Çün, Perin; Gündüz, Can
Kadifekale, since the ancient times, has been a significant area of the city of İzmir, hosting many civilizations, the traces of which reached our day. In the 1990s, the area received the rural populations, who were displaced due to forced migration. The gecekondu neighbourhoods of Kadifekale, since the 1970s, have been homogeneous settlement areas because of the vast majority of Mardinite migrants. At the present time, the area has been evacuated as part of Kadifekale and Yeşildere Urban Renewal Project due to the imminent risk of landslide, and the residents were offered the TOKİ Uzundere apartment blocks as the resettlement alternative. Designation of Kadifekale and its surroundings as archaeological site is another valuable input regarding the area. As a result of these qualities, Kadifekale became a focal point to the innovative approaches of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality, which, as of 2009, has entered into a process of change and transformation concerning its urban policies. This thesis hereby examines a socio-cultural and urban phenomenon that strives to survive within the framework established above: Tandır ovens, which are generally observed in the rural parts of Anatolia, evoking domestic meanings, are now located inside the citadels of Kadifekale, and have been utilized by a group of İzmir-Mardinite migrant women to earn a living for their families. The women bake and sell tandır bread in order to hold on to the city economically and existentially. Besides, the tandır ovens act as a tool helping them reconstruct their identity and sense of belonging, which they unwillingly left behind. This multi-layered phenomenon, which—for now—exists in the urban public space in all its vulnerability, has been handled by the multi-disciplinary initiatives established by the local authorities, and raises the question of whether it is worth preserving or not. This thesis aims to analyze the tandır case in Kadifekale from these standpoints and record this phenomenon to the history and memory of the city.
An Inquiry Into the Personalization of Space in the Case of Turkish-German Immigrants
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2015) Çıracı Yücel, Naciye; Doğan, Fehmi
Home is a special place we attach personal importance. The main focus of this study is the different and complementary meanings of “homes” that Turkish migrant families in Germany construct. One immigrant family is chosen as a case to investigate the relationship between person and place, the spatial practices at home and spatial characteristics of homes. The family migrated from Turkey to Germany in the early 1970s for economic reasons. The family still lives in Frankfurt, Germany, and they just retired. After retirement, they decided to buy a home in their homeland in Ankara and a summerhouse in Kuşadası, a seaside town close to Izmir. It was expected that the family had constructed different daily experience and homely environments in these homes. The study investigates the key points of the personalization of place and place attachment through observation and interviews. The study has three specific foci. First, family members are interviewed to investigate the individual and collective meanings of home that contribute to their sense of identity. Second, the physical and social dimensions of place and the context within which they are located were observed to discuss the role of physical environment in self-realization and how individuals construct such physical environments. Third, everyday life experiences of the family were inquired.

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