Defining semi-public space: a case study in the gated communities of Yaamkent, Ankara

Date

2019-10-20

Author

Ergun Özbolat, Ayça

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

369
views

0
downloads

Urban space is accepted as an inextricable part of public life. It is assumed that the upper-middle class has been sequestering itself from the rest of society by living in enclosed and private spaces. This intentional disengagement from public life and public spaces has been studied by the literature on gated communities. This article operationalizes the gated community beyond the debate on social segregation and includes it in the discussion of the use, production and transformation of urban spaces along with the isolation, privatization, and idealization of a specific place. This study departs from the understanding that the gated community is simply a new form of social segregation. Instead, it acknowledges enclosed residential areas as semi-public spaces in which attributes of public and private spaces are merged.

Subject Keywords

Urban space, Public and private spaces, Gated community, Ankara

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47425

Journal

TURKISH STUDIES

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2018.1556565

Collections

Department of Sociology, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Appropriation and allocation in the (RE) production of public spaces: a survey on three cases from Ankara Özkan, Selcen Özgül; Bilsel, Fatma Cânâ; Department of Architecture (2010) Public space is one of the most essential components of urban spaces, as the notion refers to the society and its values. Besides, public spaces provide the society with an opportunity of expression and identification; they have the potential of signification and of orientation of citizens‟ daily life. Public spaces are the urban places which are subject to either spontaneous or intentional transformations. In the present thesis, two developments which can be observed in these processes are examined: „appro...
Investigating the publicness of administrative spaces and a case study in Bakanlıklar District : Ankara Kelleci, Semih; Barlas, Mehmet Adnan; Department of City and Regional Planning (2012) 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...
Public art in public space: tracking graffiti and mural art practices in contemporary Tehran Zare Gharehgheshlaghi, Solmaz; Akkar Ercan, Zübeyde Müge; Urban Design in City and Regional Planning Department (2019) Public spaces, inevitable components of urban space, play a very important role in creating livable places by meeting different needs of citizens. Urban public spaces allow for social, cultural and economic interaction and intellectual freedom in urban outdoor spaces. Public art is an effective means of communication in the public sphere. As an indispensable element of space design, public art creates a 'sense of place' and 'place identity'. Public art serves many purposes such as attracting people's attent...
Transformation from Representational Space to Tolerance Space: The Juxtaposition of Ideal and Real in the Urban Public Area Basa, İnci (2018-01-01) This article discusses the concept of tolerance as an essential urban quality within the bounds of public space. The prevalent approach in urban research reveals that public spaces backdrop the level of urbanites' ability and willingness to tolerate different cultural and social clusters. As a further contribution to this observation, this study aims to develop the understanding that public spaces play a significant role in urban tolerance as geographies of encounters rather than serving as neutral settings...
Investigating the morphological aspects of public spaces: the case of Atakum coastal promenade in Samsun Er, Volkan.; Akkar Ercan, Z. Müge.; Urban Design in City and Regional Planning Department (2019) The concept of public space is quite extensive topic. It is frequently discussed in urban planning and urban design. This research primarily investigates the concept of publicness of public spaces. In addition, comprehensive analysis studies indicate what are the urban elements that determine and limit this publicness. First, it basically describes what public space is, what roles it has and what kind of stages of change it has undergone. Moreover, by examining the differences between the concepts of space ...

Citation Formats

A. Ergun Özbolat, “Defining semi-public space: a case study in the gated communities of Yaamkent, Ankara,” TURKISH STUDIES, pp. 776–793, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47425.