Assessment of factory campus development in Turkey through an urban design perspective : the case of İskenderun Iron and Steel Factory Campus

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Thesis aims to elaborate the urbanism ideology developed in the early republican period of Turkey and its reflection on the development of factory campuses. In Turkey after the Ottoman Empire, new state with its own ideology has impact on shaping urban space, politics of urban forms development, urban morphology and urban metamorphosis. This thesis examines various factory campuses designed and built after the establishment of the Turkish Republic, and focuses on a later campus development; namely İskenderun Iron and Steel Factory Campus. The study notes the dissolution of factory-housing togetherness, and points to the design values in the case study presented.

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Industrial districts, Industrial sites, Industrial location, City planning, Urbanization

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615600/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22464

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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D. Kimyon, “ Assessment of factory campus development in Turkey through an urban design perspective : the case of İskenderun Iron and Steel Factory Campus,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2013.