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Investigating the publicness of administrative spaces and a case study in Bakanlıklar District : Ankara
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2012
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Kelleci, Semih
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Public spaces are the core elements of shaping the social life in the cities, and design of public spaces is a key component of urban design. As tools of inclusive or exclusive design methods of public space vary, user group’s publicness increase or decrease relatively. So, who is defined as public for the design of public space is the main concern shaping the built environment. Centers are the peak points of publicness in cities and as a central activity administration is indispensible for every settlement. Hence, in urban life the relation of the public spaces as parks, squares, streets, plazas with administrative places is the descriptive character of that society. Besides, capital cities have accumulated administrative landuses and their design has social, symbolic and cultural meaning as well as functional use. In this study, dimensions of publicness as ownership, control, physical condition, invitingness and welcoming aspect and social animation area discussed and comparative case study put forward these dimensions of Bakanlıklar District of Ankara with regard to administrative city centers of Brasilia, Canberra, Islamabad which have similar historical background.
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Public spaces
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Public buildings
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Municipal buildings
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Civic centers
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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615015/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22143
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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis