Investigation of the neighborhood unit in the western fringe of Ankara

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The concept of a neighborhood -which is organized on the basis of ethical, communal, cultural, moral and religious values- is an elemental spatial environment. The spatial pattern of the neighborhood has been transformed by various factors such as; population, social, cultural, demographical and psychological processes from the beginning of urbanization tendencies in the 20th century both in Turkey and in the Western hemisphere. Accordingly, the housing question and the formation of different dwelling types such as -workers’ housing, community housing, squatter settlements and slums- have been widely discussed in the milieu of mass media, academic publications and via concrete examples; in the three decades between 1950 and 1980 these concentrations have been basically patterned by the political power, regulation, economic and idealization issues. Within this conjuncture of factors, the neighborhood has become a paradigm that could be identified and observed, not merely through the built environment itself, but also through the dynamics of the formation period by means of analyzing the transformation of neighborhoods in Turkey from the traditional to the emergence of the planned neighborhood unit. This research focuses on the reasons and relationships behind the formation of the neighborhood as the ‘nucleus’ of cities, and critically examines the transition period of neighborhoods in Turkey through the history of urbanization reforms in Turkey and their effects on the built environment. The aim of this research is to analyze the paradigm of the neighborhood as a significant conceptual and concrete unit of the urban environment through the development strategies and dynamics present in Turkey; especially in Ankara’s Western fringe, within the framework of sociological and environmental behavior, which has, in the course of time, been developed into a theoretical core in the architectural field of the 1970s.

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Neighborhoods., City and town life., Social interaction., Social psychology., Sociology, Urban.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/28005

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E. Ünver, “Investigation of the neighborhood unit in the western fringe of Ankara,” M.Arch. - Master of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, 2019.