Parlar, Z. Merve2016-01-082016-01-081993http://hdl.handle.net/11693/17526Ankara : The Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design and the Institute of Fine Arts of Bilkent University, 1993.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 1993.Includes bibliographical references leaves 96-99.This work puts forth a different point of view for the evaluation of the design of interior shopping malls. In this approach, public interior spaces are defined and analyzed as a component of the urban public realm. The problems and concepts of interior shopping malls are analyzed in a historical perspective, after briefly introducing the relationship between the city and the public realm, the city and the interior shopping mall. Thus the aspects of urban public realm and the design criteria of interior shopping malls are obtained and defined. Finally, based on these aspects and criteria, interior shopping malls in Ankara are analyzed. The stages of development and typologies derived from these analyses are discussed in teims of the context of urban public realm. All researches and analysis aim to form a basis for an interdisciplinary study, and to draw attention to the interaction of 'exterior space', 'building mass' and 'interior space'.x, 99, [44] leaves, illustrationsEnglishinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPublic spaceUrban public realmInterior shopping mallUrban designEnvironmental designNA6215 .P37 1993Shopping malls--Design and construction.Central business districts.City planning.Land use, Urban.Public architecture.ThesisBILKUTUPB022254