Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
PLANLAMA-PLANNING, cilt.27, sa.1, ss.94-107, 2017 (ESCI)
The expansion of the cities after the industrial revolution led to new urban dynamics and cities began to develop in a disorganized way according to arising new needs. This uncontrolled development brought the need for urban transformation/renewal in Turkey as well as in other countries. In Turkey, the terms 'urban transformation' has not clearly been understood by the city dwellers due to the increasing unearned income policies and unmonitored projects. This paper aims to draw attention to this problem and analyze the notion of urban transformation from the perspective of the city dwellers with a case study carried out in Alaybey-Izmir. In the case study which was implemented on two distinct groups, namely children and adults, the survey was employed for data collection. The findings reveal that both the children and the adults were able to detect the problems in their neighborhoods that cause transformation. But they understood the "urban transformation" differently from the definition given in the literature. Based on this result, it is suggested that the awareness of residents regarding the urban transformation should be raised. On the other hand, the expectations from the transformation project differ between children and adults. This result proves the claim that the studies from the perspective of adults cannot represent children. As is seen in the case study, children should be analyzed as a distinct subgroup in studies concerning the urban transformation.