Pedestrian experiences in Bahçelievler 7th Street: setting the design criteria for the enhancement of urban public realm

Download

index.pdf

Date

2004

Author

Akit, Mert

Metadata

Show full item record

Item Usage Stats

394
views

218
downloads

This thesis aims to set out an urban design framework, based on pedestrian experiences and pedestrian spaces, in order to take up streets to design or enhance them as pedestrian friendly urban public places. This could also be considered as a model of approach, which assumes a normative manner. Pedestrian urban places are surveyed, then analyses are drawn that will lead to design. In that framework, the study first summarizes theoretical concepts of urbanity, urban quality and pedestrian experiences, which are necessary for examining these places. Then, it puts out how an urban place is examined with respect to the three main headings, which constitute the components of urban places: urban form, urban image and urban activity. The study area, 7th Street in Bahelievler, has become a secondary centre with its vitality and the diversity of activities attracting many people from other districts besides local residents. However, initially planned within a housing cooperative, the neighbourhood has lost much from its cultural and urban accumulation due to global dynamics based on consumption. What is more, 7th Street is quite inadequate in providing an easy circulation both for pedestrians and vehicles as well as providing a quality urban place with its every element. Hence, the street has been examined with the above framework. This is done first with respect to the above mentioned components, and then with the information based on maps, photographs, personal observations and questionnaires which are done in order to find out the problems and characteristics of the users as well as their perceptive qualities. The conclusions together with strengths and weaknesses, which are derived from these surveys, have been used to set specific design guidelines for the area.

Subject Keywords

Pedestrians.

URI

http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12604740/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13990

Collections

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Variability in Sidewalk Pedestrian Level of Service Measures and Rating Karataş Sevinen, Pınar; Tüydeş Yaman, Hediye (2018-12-01) Treating walking as a mode, transportation engineers developed the pedestrian level of service (PLOS), a concept evaluating pedestrian traffic characteristics and network capacity, similar to vehicular level of service. Evolution of PLOS resulted in many methods with different scopes and measures trying to better represent the complexity of walking, none of which is superior, nor can their ratings be converted to those of other methods. This paper discusses the variability in PLOS methods proving a lack of ...
Pedestrians' Crossing Behaviors and Crossing Preferences: A Field Study Çinar, Sena; Yılmaz, Şerife; Öz, Bahar (2022-1-01) © Transactions on Transport Sciences.All rights reserved.Pedestrians are one of the most vulnerable road user groups in traffic and face many risky situations in traffic, especially when pedestrians cross the street, where a pedestrians-vehicle interaction or conflict is most likely. Different from the previous studies on pedestrian behavior, the current study targeted exploring pedestrian behavior and safety at a specific street in Ankara-Tunali Hilmi Street Turkey employing two different data collection m...
Spatial transformations of the waterfront-as an urban frontier case study : Durres a port city Koçi, Valbona; Sargın, Güven Arif; Urban Design in City and Regional Planning Department (2005) This thesis explores the spatial transformations of the waterfront اan urban frontier - of Durrës port city in Albania, within a predefined timeframe: before, during and after socialism. Within this framework, a special concern of the thesis is the examination of the impact of political, social and economic actors, as well as the morphological and geographic conditions, which occur when transforming the urban space and environment. Thus, the work is constructed on the basis of cause (urban process) ا effect...
Reclaiming pedestrian-oriented places to increase walkability in city center the case of Yüksel Street, Ankara Farnian, Saideh; Yetişkul Şenbil, Emine; Department of City and Regional Planning (2014) Walking as the basic, cheapest and the most affordable way of transportation, recreation and socialization is a significant means of experiencing a city. Walkability of a city is a measure of how friendly, safe and attractive a city is to walk within it. Walking in a city and the extent to which the built environment supports walking is signifier of civilization and popular walkable spaces particularly in city center are considered as part of collective memory of a city. Accordingly, a well-designed walkabl...
Impacts of privatization on urban planning: the Turkish case (Ankara) Eren, Şirin Gülcen; Keskinok, Hüseyin Çağatay; Department of City and Regional Planning (2007) Privatization debate in urban planning literature is accelerating as commodification of urban space increases by the “tension” between urban planning and privatization. The limited number of studies on the privatization of public lands and its impacts on urban planning processes as well as the theoretical framework in terms of rent, rights to property, and public interest issues has stimulated the aims of this thesis. All these provided a base for this thesis. This Thesis aims to clarify the relationship be...

Citation Formats

M. Akit, “Pedestrian experiences in Bahçelievler 7th Street: setting the design criteria for the enhancement of urban public realm,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2004.