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URBAN [DIS]ORDER: REINVENTING URBAN SPACE? THE CASE OF INSTANBUL, TURKEY

NARKAR, POONAM
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1155749060

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2006, MCP, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Community Planning.
A city comprises of its varied spaces and its people that inhabit these spaces and ascribe meaning to them. While there are those urban spaces that are formally defined and used in a specified order, there are also those urban spaces that are formed as a result of spatial practices, through self-organization of individuals and groups of people and their practices of daily life. There are innumerable such places that people transform to fit their own social, cultural, recreational, economic or political needs. I call these spaces, that spontaneously ‘occur’ as a result of people’s mediation, as “informal spaces” since they do not follow the norms of formally defined spaces. As people reshape and reinterpret urban space, they ascribe it a different meaning, consequently “reinventing” urban space. The study aims to first acknowledge the phenomenon of informal spaces in cities and to identify them, to understand how urban space is used by people in different ways, for what purposes and for what reasons, by way of occupancy and appropriation. The thesis constructs a theoretical base for study of informal spaces to later derive a connection between this theoretical understanding and the practical process of planning. The explorations in informal spaces are carried out through different examples in the city of Istanbul, but for the purpose of this study six examples are chosen as case studies – highway parks, Galata Bridge, space under vehicular flyover bridges, underpasses, Taksim Square and Istiklal Street. The case study mainly comprises of qualitative data collected through, personal observations along with photographic and video documentation of events, literature study and interviews with professional planners, faculty of School of Architecture and Planning at Istanbul Technical University and students. Analysis of the six case studies brings forth the socio-cultural and socio-economic implications of informal spaces in Istanbul and establishes the value of these spaces in the life of people. Finally, I develop taxonomy of informal spaces that can be conceptually applied to other cities showing similar urban conditions.
Menelaos Triantafillou (Advisor)
92 p.
informal space; reinventing urban space; spatial practices; social space; Istanbul

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  • NARKAR, P. (2006). URBAN [DIS]ORDER: REINVENTING URBAN SPACE? THE CASE OF INSTANBUL, TURKEY [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1155749060

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • NARKAR, POONAM. URBAN [DIS]ORDER: REINVENTING URBAN SPACE? THE CASE OF INSTANBUL, TURKEY. 2006. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1155749060.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • NARKAR, POONAM. "URBAN [DIS]ORDER: REINVENTING URBAN SPACE? THE CASE OF INSTANBUL, TURKEY." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1155749060

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