Analysis of the problems of gated communities in terms of public open spaces in the context of man and environment relations

Megaron

关键词: gated communities;    public open spaces;    man-environment relation;   

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: KARE Publishing

【 摘 要 】

Urban open spaces that have public characteristic via coexisting of citizens, communication and generating own social spaces, have been lost its value because of globalization and arise of new life styles. People-environment relation had ignored and disconnected, inert, problematic spaces had arised in these public spaces especially surrounding by gated communities that have developed since the late 1990. The aim of this study is to draw attention to some problems around gated communities and public spaces in the context of people-environment relations, and examines the theorical findings with the help of case study in Maviþehir-Ýzmir via systematic observation research. The study concluded that, the sustainability of open public spaces that take place around gated communities are under threat and this problem stem from the physical and social segregation. Thus, problematic spaces arise which are unsafety and disenable to interaction. When we examine two case site that built in different periods and have different characteristics in Maviþehir, it was observed that, park and recreation areas around 1. Stage Maviþehir site that does not have borders, using actively and have qualified design-landscape areas when we compared to Albayrak site. Design of open public spaces and landscape equipment are very limited in parks and recreation areas around Albayrak site. These places cause discarded, unsafe areas. The survey results reveal that gated communities undermine the relationship between human and environment, cause significant handicaps in terms of public life and sustainability of open public spaces.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC-ND