Examining an Informally Developed Housing Environment in terms of Active Public Participation of Children

Nevset Gul Canakcioglu

doi:10.51664/artium.1240164

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Examining an Informally Developed Housing Environment in terms of Active Public Participation of Children

Abstract

Children's participation in urban spaces has been withdrawn due to the effect of globalization specifically in metropolitan cities. Today, in Istanbul, the opportunity for free participation of children in the public domain and the privilege of walking to school is among informal housing settlements. However, these children lack adequate supervision and security. Therefore, this study hypothesizes that urban strategies that can be implemented for the physical improvement of these environments can be a tactic that will not only support the child's safe participation in the public sphere but also support children’s walkability to school. The walkability potentials of the street network were revealed through syntactic graphs of Nisantepe neighbourhood where children predominantly walk to school. As a result, it was revealed that the street in the north-eastern part of the region is the one with the highest connectivity value towards the area where Nisantepe Primary and Secondary School are located. It was noticed that this region also emerged as the highest value of global integration, R3, R5 and R7 local integration values. In the agent analysis, it was revealed that the newly formed street network in Nisantepe supports the potential to support the walkability of the school route.

Keywords

Enformel Bir Konut Çevresinin Çocukların Aktif Kamusal Katılımı Açısından İncelenmesi

Öz

Küreselleşmenin etkisiyle özellikle büyükşehirlerde, çocukların kentsel mekandaki aktif katılımları giderek azalmıştır. Çocukların kamusal alana katılma ve okula yürüyerek gidebilme ayrıcalığı, günümüz İstanbul kentinde, ağırlıklı olarak enformel konut yerleşimlerinde rastlanan bir olgudur. Öte yandan, enformel yerleşimlerde yaşayan çocuklar, yeterli gözetim ve güvenlikten yoksundur. Bu bağlamda, bu çalışma bu tür enformel konut yerleşimlerinin fiziksel karakteristiğinin iyileştirilmesinin, yalnızca çocuğun kamusal mekana güvenli bir şekilde katılımı konusunda değil, aynı zamanda çocukların okula yürüyebilme imkanlarını destekleyeceği hipotezine dayanmaktadır. Nisantepe Mahallesi'ne ilişkin gerçekleştirilen alan çalışmasında, sokak şebekesinin (street network) yürünebilirlik potansiyeli, mekansal dizim (space syntax) aracılığıyla ortaya çıkarılmıştır. Sonuç olarak, bölgenin Nişantepe İlkokulu ve Ortaokulu'nun yer aldığı kuzeydoğusu bölgesinde yer alan sokağın, bölgenin en yüksek bağlantısallığa sahip aksı olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Bunun yanı sıra, bu bölge aynı zamanda, mahallenin en yüksek bütünleşme, R3, R5 ve R7 lokal bütünleşme değerinin bulunduğu bölge olarak öne çıkmaktadır. Gerçekleştirilen agent analizlerinde de Nişantepe'de yeni yapılandırılan sokağın okula yürünebilirlik potansiyelini desteklediği fark edilmektedir.

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Kentsel Politika

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yazarlar

Nevset Gul Canakcioglu ^*
0000-0002-8289-3601
Türkiye

Yayımlanma Tarihi

31 Ağustos 2023

Gönderilme Tarihi

21 Ocak 2023

Kabul Tarihi

28 Temmuz 2023

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2023 Cilt: 11 Sayı: 2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.51664/artium.1240164

IZ

https://izlik.org/JA26NN85NJ

Kaynak Göster

RIS / Bibtex

APA

Canakcioglu, N. G. (2023). Examining an Informally Developed Housing Environment in terms of Active Public Participation of Children. Artium, 11(2), 148-162. https://doi.org/10.51664/artium.1240164

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