Really public? Evaluating the publicness of public spaces in Istanbul by means of fuzzy logic modelling

Ekdi, Fatma Pelin; Ciraci, Hale

doi:10.1080/13574809.2015.1106919

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“…Access is a useful indicator applied in different context for defining and assessing the segregation trend of public space (Schmidt & Németh, 2010;Németh, 2012;La Rosa, 2014;Reyes et al, 2014;Ekdi & Çıracı, 2015). Openness of public space should include physical as well as social accessibility: access to the place and to the activities within it (Madanipour, 2010).…”

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Challenges of Accessibility for Marginal People in Privately Operated Public Space: Linear Park, Khulna as a Case

2022

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Apart from economic and environmental significance, public spaces have been argued to be one of the most important integrants of urban life for their social role. Nonetheless, a large number of public spaces in different contexts do not promote heterogeneity and lack in publicness. The exclusion of the marginal people from using public space has become a rising issue. However, built environmental design and management play significant roles in contributing to this exclusionary nature in state-owned but privately operated public spaces. To assess the extent and depth of exclusion, this study initially investigates the user condition of the park, who comes to the park, the number of visitors, and above all, the presence of marginal people. Later, with the indicators of accessibility, the study explores the shortcomings of design and management aspects, which are responsible for exclusion. This qualitative research employs a case study approach and uses observation and interview methods in the urban context of Bangladesh. Empirical data is collected from Linear Park in Khulna, a recently developed riverfront park by Khulna City Corporation (KCC) which is leased to a private organization. Findings from this study reveal that different roles of both public and private bodies are responsible for diminishing publicness in both development and use phases. Accordingly, design and management considerations for such urban parks need to be revised to ensure the public space is more comprehensive and inclusive to serve the diverse groups of people.

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Challenges of Accessibility for Marginal People in Privately Operated Public Space: Linear Park, Khulna as a Case

2022

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“…Emperor Theodosius made a forum in the middle of necropolises between 375-395 [24], making Beyazit Square the focal point in the city. The Tauri Forum [25], the Theodosius Forum, and in its final form the Beyazit Square have been an area that has undergone many changes throughout its history. The square is now one of the most important historical locations of Istanbul, located at the center of the city's commercial, cultural, and touristic activities on the Eminönü-Ayasofya-Beyazit-Aksaray axis, where the city's historic rib is formed and is also home to subterranean archaeological remains of utmost significance.…”

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Quality Assessment of Public Spaces: The Case of Beyazit Square and Its Surroundings

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Özöğür‐Akyüz²,

Etike³

2022

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“…Similar publicness models also consider uses/users (Németh and Schmidt, 2011), management and inclusiveness (Langstraat and van Melik, 2013;Mehta, 2014), and so on as dimensions of publicness. The different publicness models have been variously applied to evaluate and compare public spaces' status quo (Varna and Tiesdell, 2010;Németh and Schmidt, 2011;Langstraat and van Melik, 2013;Mehta, 2014;Ekdi and Çıracı, 2015;Karaçor, 2016;Lopes, Santos Cruz, and Pinho, 2020), measure the change of publicness before and after a given development project (Akkar, 2003(Akkar, , 2005a(Akkar, , 2005b, and evaluate how different stakeholders contribute to the increase or decrease of publicness (Németh and Schmidt, 2011;Ho, Lai, and Wang, 2020). This is not an exhaustive summary of existing approaches to interpreting publicness, but it shows that most of these models, built on a singular ideal publicness that is «"out-there" and external to people» (Varna and Tiesdell, 2010: 578), are preoccupied with determining «what mix of conditions might lead to a highly public and democratic public space» (Tornaghi, 2015: 25).…”

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Repensar lo público: la creación del espacio público en una «ciudad global excelente» y la retórica y la realidad de la orientación hacia las personas

Zhu

2022

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En el centro de los debates sobre la desaparición y el resurgimiento del espacio público se encuentra el concepto de lo público, que a menudo se utiliza para definir las cualidades más deseables que desde el punto de vista normativo y prescriptivo debe poseer un espacio público. Este artículo, en lugar de proponer un ideal abstracto y normativo universalmente aplicable a lo público, aboga por su desnormalización, abordando este concepto como un estado del espacio que es público de una determinada manera y en un contexto determinado. Para ilustrar las múltiples capas posibles de lo público, el artículo utiliza como estudio de caso la regeneración del espacio público de la ribera del río Huangpu en Shanghai. Examinando la transformación de esta ribera en las dos últimas décadas y centrados en el reciente proyecto de conexión del espacio público, el artículo muestra las diferentes formas en las que el diseño y el desarrollo del espacio público se entrelazan con el ideal de metrópolis orientada a las personas, propuesto como la clave de la pretensión ambiciosa de que Shanghái se convierta en una «excellent global city» (ciudad global excelente). A partir del análisis de la retórica y de la realidad del desarrollo del espacio público en la ribera en Shanghái orientado a las personas, este artículo muestra tres capas diferentes de lo público: lo público localizado, lo público procedimental y lo público simbólico, que se refieren no solo a la calidad material sino también a los procesos de distribución y construcción discursiva del espacio público. Este debate sobre las múltiples caras posibles de lo público servirá de punto de partida para seguir investigando cómo abordar lo público más allá del confinamiento de los límites espaciales como parte de la amplia y compleja dinámica de poder de las ciudades contemporáneas.

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Really public? Evaluating the publicness of public spaces in Istanbul by means of fuzzy logic modelling

Cited by 21 publications

References 29 publications

Challenges of Accessibility for Marginal People in Privately Operated Public Space: Linear Park, Khulna as a Case

Challenges of Accessibility for Marginal People in Privately Operated Public Space: Linear Park, Khulna as a Case

Quality Assessment of Public Spaces: The Case of Beyazit Square and Its Surroundings

Repensar lo público: la creación del espacio público en una «ciudad global excelente» y la retórica y la realidad de la orientación hacia las personas

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