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Revitalizing Undefined Urban Spaces by Temporary Urban Strategies
Undefined urban open spaces, forming the heterogeneous structure of urban tissue, are perceived differently by users. These areas, which are thought to impair the relation between people and public life, are generally seen as empty, vacant, disorganized, uncertain areas in spatial terms. Because of their perception of being empty, abandoned, having no function, being in a forbidden zone or leftover, these areas are often referred to as negative associations by citizens and designers since the beginning of urbanization discourses. However, within the framework of urban developments, approaches to these areas in cities are increasingly changing in a positive and constructive way. This paper attempts to focus on examining undefined urban open spaces and tries to justify temporary interventions as positive inputs because of their contribution to new publicness and progressive planning design approach of the city. In this study, a selection of latest examples of temporary uses in world literature are compiled and classified according to the qualities that distinguishes undefined areas from each other. Thus, specific interventions for different type of spaces are put forth. The motive of this study is, beyond the problems of undefined urban open spaces, to discuss and highlight the opportunities that they provide and to create a perception and an input that offers alternative approaches for future studies.
Revitalizing Undefined Urban Spaces by Temporary Urban Strategies
Undefined urban open spaces, forming the heterogeneous structure of urban tissue, are perceived differently by users. These areas, which are thought to impair the relation between people and public life, are generally seen as empty, vacant, disorganized, uncertain areas in spatial terms. Because of their perception of being empty, abandoned, having no function, being in a forbidden zone or leftover, these areas are often referred to as negative associations by citizens and designers since the beginning of urbanization discourses. However, within the framework of urban developments, approaches to these areas in cities are increasingly changing in a positive and constructive way. This paper attempts to focus on examining undefined urban open spaces and tries to justify temporary interventions as positive inputs because of their contribution to new publicness and progressive planning design approach of the city. In this study, a selection of latest examples of temporary uses in world literature are compiled and classified according to the qualities that distinguishes undefined areas from each other. Thus, specific interventions for different type of spaces are put forth. The motive of this study is, beyond the problems of undefined urban open spaces, to discuss and highlight the opportunities that they provide and to create a perception and an input that offers alternative approaches for future studies.
Revitalizing Undefined Urban Spaces by Temporary Urban Strategies
Hızlı Erkılıç, Neslinur (author) / Ciravoğlu Demirdizen, Ayşen (author)
2018-11-21
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
720
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