Kentsel Çöküntü Alanlari Üzeri̇ne Teori̇k Bi̇r Tartişma

Abstract

The concept of urban collapse in the literature is used in the sense of losing its identity as the "normal living area" of an old neighborhood located in a place close to the center or the center of the city and changing its spatial, social, physical and cultural characteristics. Middleton (1991) explains the urban deteriorated area with poverty, lack of new job opportunities and reduced environmental quality. According to him, the places whose conditions deteriorate for various reasons are invaded by the lower income, and thus the process of collapse of the space is accelerated. Is it possible to base all kinds of urban tissue deterioration on the same reason, or is it sufficient to explain this depression process in a single typology? There are various applied studies based on different reasons for the formation of urban deteriorated areas in urban centers. These theories deal with the problem in three perspectives. These are urban ecological, historical and economic processes theory. In this context, the main purpose of the study is to compare the three theories and to discuss the reasons for the collapse process in the city centers. Then on the basis of the discussions of the theory which is valid or not valid for Turkey cities was questioned.