An assessment of green and blue sensitive public open spaces’ landscape designs in terms of their spatial and seasonal flexibility

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2024-12

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Tok, Fatmanur

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Rapid urbanization, urban sprawl, and climate change have threatened the world, leading to serious environmental problems. Hence, sustainable landscape and urban design, embracing the blue and green infrastructure (BGI) approach, has become indispensable to making cities more resilient, adaptable, and prepared for all predictable and unpredictable conditions. Urban resilience is related to how well-designed and flexible they are, and public open spaces are keystones where these sustainable design interventions can be implemented against the unforeseeable future. This thesis, investigating the relationship between green and blue-sensitive public open spaces’ landscape designs and their spatial and seasonal flexibility, aims to discover how various alterations in landscape designs of green and blue-sensitive public open spaces reflect on their spatial and seasonal flexibility. Using a multiple-case study approach, it examines twelve international open public spaces, well-known in the green-blue sensitive and/or flexible public open spaces literature. The cases are selected according to five criteria and evaluated via three flexibility types (multifunction, convertibility, and expansibility) and their ten indicators. Using three flexibility types and ten indicators, this research proposes a quantitative assessment model with desk-based analyses. Case study matrices, evaluation tables, and spider web charts present the assessments and comparisons of the investigated cases. Based on selection criteria, exceptional variables, and flexibility types, the findings of comparative analyses are presented and discussed as research outcomes of this study. The research findings demonstrate how changing satisfaction ratings of indicators in landscape designs of green and blue-sensitive public open spaces differentiate their spatial and seasonal flexibility.

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Green and blue sensitive public open spaces, Flexible public open spaces, Flexible landscape designs, Spatial flexibility, Seasonal flexibility

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/113060

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis