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Item Open Access Evaluation of outdoor activities in downtown areas within the context of time and provided space: case of Kizilay(Bilkent University, 1996) Mahmud, ShihabuddinThis study examines the varieties of outdoor activities in a downtown. In this approach the social and physical attributes of outdoor activities are emphasized and their qualitative assessment is undertaken by people's participation and personal observation. Accordingly, a framework is proposed to investigate the temporal and spatial distribution of outdoor activities. The concepts and the problems of outdoor activities are analyzed in a historical perspective and people's behavior and perception of downtown open spaces are evaluated with climatic conditions. A questionnaire is prepared and applied to evaluate outdoor spaces that are exclusively pedestrian and support Atatürk Boulevard in Kızılay, Ankara. Thus, people's assessment of outdoor spaces and their performed activities are obtained and defined. Consequently, an attempt has been made to outline some key pattern for future improvements of outdoor spaces with reference to the users’ expectations and preferences in Kızılay.Item Open Access Rethinking the international and security through the city(Bilkent University, 2014) Karacan, SezgiAlthough territorial physical borders are still relevant, other forms of bordering take place daily that are not in line with the imagination of the international as a space of territorially demarcated sovereign states. Urban space is a part of this identity making and spatializing process of (re)mapping the international. Engaging with practices and understandings of security reveals different experiences of urban, hence different imaginations of the city and the international. In this light, questioning the interaction between city, security and the international, this thesis asks how the bordering of cities plays in the construction of the international and its subjects through practices and understandings of (urban) security and insecurity. Firstly, different bordering practices within cities and their associated imagination of the international is examined. Then, informed by and informing such imaginations, how authorities and professionals reborder the city and how the city is made ‘safe’ against those parts of the city that are deemed as dangerous is discussed. While this gives an understanding of how the everyday is shaped by security, final part questions how urban dwellers in their daily lives shape security understandings. This thesis argues that existing politics of the international that generates insecurities and inequalities work through bordering of cities and this is depoliticized through the existing politics of security both in the ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ world. The aim of the thesis is to reach a less state-centric and a more bottom-up approach in understanding and rethinking the relationship between city, security and the international.Item Open Access The rise of the shopping mall in Turkey: the use and appeal of a mall in Ankara(Elsevier, 2005-03) Erkip, F.The shopping mall as the site of contemporary consumption has long been attracting the attention of various researchers analyzing socio-spatial dynamics in different cultures. It is the focus of this study of recent transformations in Turkish metropolises, due to its primary influence on urban life. As an initial attempt to understand the Turkish situation, a field survey was carried out in Bilkent Shopping Center, a newly built shopping mall in a high-income suburban area of the capital city, Ankara. Some long-lasting assumptions about Western consumption trends and shopping mall development were tested to provide clues for dynamics in a developing country. In addition to statistical analyses of data obtained from structured interviews, various observations were used to enrich the survey. Although shopping mall development seems to be a part of a global trend, there exist socio-cultural influences creating local patterns in the use of the mall. These patterns differ with user characteristics, such as gender, age and occupation, as well as the time of visit. This paper suggests that shopping mall development poses a number of policy issues for planning bodies and these issues need to be addressed with an awareness of the local context.