Master Degree / Yüksek Lisans Tezleri

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Enhancing the performance of smart city dashboards through user-centered design principles: Insights from the Bizİzmir experience
(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2024) Yılmaz, Fitnat Hazal; Velibeyoğlu, Koray
Açık verinin akıllı şehir uygulamalarında hızla yayılması, kent yönetimi ve vatandaş katılımını dönüştürerek şeffaflık, verimlilik ve katılımcı karar alma süreçleri için önemli fırsatlar sunmaktadır. Kent panoları, kentsel metrikleri interaktif görselleştirmelerle merkezileştirerek politika yapıcıların ve vatandaşların kentsel dinamikleri gerçek zamanlı izlemesine ve yanıt vermesine olanak tanımaktadır. Ancak, kent panoları düşük kullanılabilirlik, sınırlı kamu katılımı ve veri okuryazarlığı farklılıklarından kaynaklanan erişim engelleri gibi sorunlarla karşılaşmaktadır. Bu araştırma, İzmir'in özgün kentsel dinamiklerine uygun, ölçeklenebilir, modüler ve kullanıcı odaklı bir kent panosu tasarlayarak mevcut sorunları aşmayı, erişilebilirlik, kullanıcı etkileşimi ve tematik uyumu önceliklendirerek vatandaş katılımını artırmayı, kentsel yönetişimi güçlendirmeyi ve sürdürülebilir kalkınmayı teşvik etmeyi hedeflemektedir. Araştırma, pano kullanım desenlerinin nicel analizi ile belediye veri sağlayıcıları ve potansiyel kullanıcılarla yapılan nitel görüşmeleri birleştiren karma bir yöntem kullanmaktadır. Küresel kent panolarının karşılaştırmalı analizi ve ortak tasarım atölyeleri, platformun tasarımını geliştirmek için temel yöntemlerdir. Gerçek zamanlı veri entegrasyonu, interaktif görselleştirmeler ve öngörüsel analizlerle İzmir Kent Panosu, hem vatandaşları hem de politika yapıcıları güçlendirmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Çevresel kalite ve altyapı performansı gibi geniş bir kentsel metrik yelpazesini kapsayan platform, veri odaklı karar alma süreçlerini teşvik etmeyi ve kamu katılımını artırmayı hedeflemektedir. Bu araştırma, İzmir için uygulanabilir içgörüler sağlamakla kalmayıp, küresel ölçekte kapsayıcı kent panoları tasarımı için tekrar edilebilir bir çerçeve sunmaktadır.
A Study on Place Identity and Placelessness on the Backside of the İzmir-Alsancak Port Using Environmental Perception Approach
(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2024) Akpınar, Figen; Bozay, Tuğçe; Akpınar, Figen
Günümüzde, küresel dinamikler ve mevcut planlama anlayışı ile üretilen kentsel alanlarda hem fiziksel hem de sosyal problemler son zamanlarda artış göstermektedir. Bu üretimler birey, toplum ve kent ilişkisini olumsuz etkilemekte, yerlerde kimlik, aidiyet, bağlanma sorunları ortaya çıkarmakta, tekdüze yerler üreterek yerlerin ruhunu ve anlamını yok etmektedir. İzmir kenti bu neoliberal anlayışlar sonucu parçalı projeler ile köklü dönüşümlere maruz kalmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın yürütüldüğü bölge olan İzmir Liman Arkası, İzmir Yeni Kent Merkezi projesinin gökdelen formundaki yapılaşmasına maruz kalmış, endüstri mirasına sahip bir çöküntü bölgedir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, İzmir Liman Arkası bölgesi için değişim ve dönüşüm süreçlerini inceleyerek, yerel halkın algısında yer kimliğini ve yersizlik unsurlarını araştırmak ve böylece küresel politikalar ve mevcut planlama sürecine bir eleştiri getirmektir.
Alternative Approaches in Urban Design in Declining Historic Areas: Case of Historic City of İzmir
(2023) Afacan, Gizem; Saygın, Nicel
While the changing dynamics of the space drive the spatial practices to change for keeping up with recent conditions, alternative approaches as an updated version of placemaking concept have emerged for exceeding limitations that are generated by privatisation, gentrification and conflicts of interests that harm the relationship between place and community. The idea suggests the required amount of intervention to prevent over or under design with the consideration of both social and physical issues and promotes user-oriented design while targeting to create a permenant change in attitudes. In this context, the study aims to explore, document, and understand the practices of alternative approaches that are practised with event design, game design, civic initiatives, participatory design, temporary- tactical design and adaptive reuse in the declining historic area, case of Historic City of İzmir which is sensitive due to tangible and intangible elements of the space. This study follows a descriptive approach and the process in Historic City of İzmir is investigated through case study methodology, and then actions that were conducted by different actors were evaluated through insight of the literature. As a result, the study emphasises alternative practices as supportive tools to go beyond the physical aspect of the space considering the different dimensions of urban design. Also, the study presents the application of alternative urban design approaches while explaining the new perspective of local governance defined as the İzmir Model and suggests the consideration of placemaking process for policy making in urban design context.
Integration of Archaeological Sites Into Planning Process: the Case of Iskele (urla)
(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2021) Erincik, Sedef; Saygın, Nicel
The 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.
Location Choice of Food Industry in İzmir
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Akbaşoğulları, Nilnaz; Duran, Hüseyin Engin
In this study, the spatial distribution of the food companies registered in the Aegean Region Chamber of Industry in İzmir has been investigated and the causality of the site selection has been reviewed. The empirical studies conducted in the literature so far does not include a detailed study on the choice of location of the food industry, a factor that adds strength to this study. The purpose of the current study is to analyse the determinants of firm location in Izmir’s food industry. It particularly focuses on the impact of experience and size of the firms. In this study, we examined, through statistical methods (such as descriptive statistics, maps, cross sectional linear regressions, spatial autocorrelation analyses), 734 companies. The following variables were empirically analysed, firms’ establishment dates, sub-sectors, number of employees, capital assets, locations, distances from the centre of Izmir, distances from the centre of the sub-province that the establishment belongs to and the distance from each other. As a result of the empirical analyses and spatial data evaluation, companies’ choice of location in the food industry can be summarized as follows; Experience plays a very significant role, which means that experienced companies are located in the centre or close to the centre because they have already been well-established in that place. The choice of location does not have any bearing upon the size of the firm.
Urban Policies and Critical Analysis of Urban Transformation in Izmir: Yeşildere Case
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2020) Ece Kaya, Birsu; Akış, Tonguç
This academic study focuses the living space of the urban poor in İzmir through the Yeşildere region. Gecekondu areas in Turkey have emerged in 1950s with the immigration of people from rural to the city who migrate for reasons such as job, education and health care to meet the housing needs of people. These areas have become against to construction law, unplanned, without infrastructure together with serious environment and health problems. Yeşildere has become a gecekondu area in order to meet the housing needs of people who migrated to İzmir between 1960-1975 due to the establishment of industrial buildings and job opportunities. In time, having stuck in the city center, some interventions and works have been started under the name of so-called "urban transformation" because of the increased value of the land and the gecekondu residents were sent to other parts of the city or mass housing in the city's peripheries. Yeşildere, besides housing the aqueducts which still remain today from the Roman and Ottoman era, is being used as a gecekondu settlement due to the accelerating industrialization in the country. In recent years, demolitions have been carried out by the local government for certain reasons and new infrastructure works have been carried out in the region. In this context, the aim of the thesis is to evaluate and criticise the historical transformations of İzmir and Yeşildere, the physical and social characteristics of the urban poor's living space, the recent interventions by local government, the urban migrations and urban transformation practices. The thesis is constructing a critical analysis on Yeşildere and aiming to support the recent literature studies through the in-depth interviews with the people in the neighbourhood. For this reason, these semi-constructed interviews were conducted during the study with the individuals who is living and already lived in Yeşildere together with the literature study.
Analysis of Four Urban Squares in Izmir According To the Leading Urban Design Literature
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018) Ceyhan Abacı, Fatma; Çil, Ela; Velibeyoğlu, Koray
The squares are the significant elements of the urban public spaces that provide the users different experience in the city, activate their city life and they are human oriented places for cities and societies. The squares are strong accumulation places where each day a different experience comes true so they transfer society‟s culture, social habits, way of life, memories from past to the future. Since urban squares have those significant roles for cities, researching the spatial, functional and social qualities of the squares are very important to understand and identify them. The aim of this study is to reveal the characteristics of urban squares according to leading literature studies. The study focuses on what are the criteria we need to analyze in order to determining the qualities of the squares. Accordingly, the main common ideas on urban squares in the literature have been categorized to evaluate the squares. The leading qualities of the squares comprise of the ten normative criteria based on sixteen important authors of related studies which are the main textbooks of the thesis. The content of the criteria consists mainly of the characteristics that the square must have physically, socially and functionally. In this study, Ali Paşa Square, Hatuniye Square, Cumhuriyet Square, and Gündoğdu Square are chosen in İzmir as case study area. The study cases are observed and analyzed according to ten evaluation criteria. The analyses results extract the characteristics of each square. All findings, results and normative criteria are together discussed as results. The results of this study may guide to reconsideration of urban squares within modern usages and designing more useful squares for further studies.
Place-Making: Examination of Practices in Turkey
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2015) Kuru, Ömür Damla; Saygın, Nicel
Place-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.
Stairways as Spatial Elements in an Urban Environment
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2002) Taşke, Neşe; Gençel, Ziya; Gencel, Ziya
This study is focused on determining the design criteria for creating livable and democratic stairways, which are a part of the public space, that would enhance social interactions by providing all day long safe and comfortable use by residents as well as passers-by through analysing the physical aspects in order to lay out the functional problems. Stairways, which at first were a symbol of power or were a path to gods, after the beginning of public life, sharing urban space, circulation, pedestrian movement, created paths that evolved through topographic obstacles to become connections between different levels that required new designs and arrangements.The intricate relation between stairways, street-life and urban social life leave the stairways neglected through the changes in public life where the streets filled with obstacles are becoming gateways to residences. On the other hand stairways in the past have always been urban spaces which housed social life with all its features by looking at evidence of works in literature, music and cinema through time. Street characteristics have an important role in the urban setting as they evolve with public life reflecting its social, cultural and economic status. Because of the above reasons outdoor spaces are to be designed considering the social, cultural properties, needs and requests of the residents. and passers-by.s keeping track of the harmony with the environment. The study, at this point, stresses that stairways, although cannot house all outdoor activities, are more than mere elements of between levels circulation elements due to their capacity of a bearing many functions. The necessity of considering the variety of behaviours, needs and requests of differing age and user groups when designing is another issue pointed out in this study. Although stairways have the advantage of being isolated from vehicle traffic they still pose problems to the handicapped and elderly. Inspite the unavailability of ramp implementation in some cases stairways are still the playground for kids.The case study area is Güzelyalı district in İzmir, which has a variety of stairways with different characteristics. The stairways in the area have been classified with reference to their functions in the past, and their evolved functions due to increase in population and wear in time. The current physical and social situation of these stairways have been analysed with observation, photographing, inquiries etc. These methods provided a stronger foundation for discriminating the needs and requirements of the users, by a participative approach, in order to put forward design methods that would create an environmental quality to reach these goals.The study states that stairways, in addition to being safe paths for necessary activities, should promote optional and social activities to take place on them. This can be obtained by designs that are motivating, exiting, implemented such that they are connected to other public spaces, enhance environmental quality with sensible use of design elements a outdoor furniture.Key words: urban space, public space, stairway, steps, pedestrian, stairway activities, access, social interaction, environment quality.
The Morphological Characteristics of the Block Structure in Central Areas
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2004) Bozkurt, Uğur; Süel, Akın
This thesis aims to introduce the fundamental role of the block structure in formation of the urban fabric, and with the aim to develop an alternative method for optimum conditions of the block structure, unlike the formation methods of the 'Development Regulation'. Block structure refers to arrangement of the plots, buildings and spaces within the building blocks. So, this thesis revealed the importance of the appropriate formation of the block structure to form the urban space creating the urban vitality in central part of the city. In order to achieve these aims, urban fabric, urban space, block structure, and streets are defined with their components to understand the scope of the study. After that, the existing conditions of the urban planning techniques are mentioned to expose the formation methods of the current applications. Then, the design criteria, which are selected in the literature survey, are introduced to welladjusted design conditions of the block structure arrangement. Within this framework, the design methods are designated to analyze and design the optimum formation conditions of the block structure. Finally, these design methods, which are defined as 'Comparative Study', 'Typo-Morphological Approach', 'Figure-Ground Theory', 'Density Distribution Model', 'Natural Lighting Assessment Method', 'Urban Design Guidelines' and 'Urban Coding', are used to suggest a conceptual model for an alternative size and form of the block structure, in contrast the existing conditions of the case study area with the aim to evaluate the determination process of the optimum conditions. Key Words: Urban Fabric, Urban Form, Block Structure, Plot Pattern, Building Structure, Network, Building Density, Design Criteria, Urban Morphology, Urban Design Guidelines, Comparative Study.

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