Assessment on the Inner City Rural Areas Development Dynamics The Case of İzmir DoğançayNeighbourhood

Efe Güney M., Çilingir T.

International Managing the Urban Rural Interface Conference, Kobenhavn, Danimarka, 19 - 22 Ekim 2010

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Yayınlanmadı
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Kobenhavn
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Danimarka
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Since planning practices in Turkey are mainly devoted to city planning rather than regional or rural planning, the priority is given to the city and economy which complements its relationship networks. Therefore, inner-city rural areas are seen as a problem for city administrators and/or city inhabitants. The underlying reasons are,

-       the lack of city administrators’ experiences aimed at urbanization of the inner-city rural areas within their own conditions,

-       the lack of city inhabitants’ aesthetic and formal concerns to define the city in which they live and lack of their adaptability to meet and live together with different lifestyles.

These two problem areas should try to be solved under the leadership of city administrators and by way of providing public participation in case of need.

However, beyond anything, the problems for the inhabitants of that place cannot be taken into consideration due to lack of related experience and awareness because the purpose appears to be urbanizing the area in accordance with the pre-experienced city planning approaches.

In theory, planning constructs itself according to distinctive conditions of the place. However, when old inner city rural areas are to be at issue, the practice apeears to be confined to the already-experienced ‘urban’ setting, which in fact contradicts with the essence of planning as an interdisciplinary field with broader concerns and responsibilities.

This paper is based on the project carried out by the second year students of Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Architecture Department of City and Regional Planning Undergraduate Program, on basis of the main approaches adopted in project framework, the obtained  projects and evaluation of the results

The projects produced in studios were constructed under four main topics, and approximately six subtopics were determined under each main topic and total 25 projects were produced. The mentioned main topics are in the forms of planning the settlement on the basis of

-       current trends,

-       cultural and touristic functions,

-       development into secondary housing zone and

-       planning approach based on sustainable development and conservation of ecology.

The paper will present the proposals of the produced projects specifically and will discuss these proposals in terms of their applicability in planning practices of Turkey.