ATA Planlama ve Tasarım Dergisi

Yazarlar: NESLİHAN DEMİRCAN, İşik SEZEN

Konular:Planlama ve Gelişim

Anahtar Kelimeler:Urban transformation,Allotment Gardens,Grespace use,Slum land,Design suggestion

Özet: Allotment Gardens (AG) are the products of an approach having emerged and expanded nearly 200 years ago in the cities of especially European and then other world countries. AGs are the plots constituted and allotted by central governments to the urban poor to make agricultural production to improve their economic status and fight poverty by using their products to meet food demands. When it first appeared, AG concept bore the concerns of economic income while it is now faraway from its original purposes and in decreasing trend from the aspect of land size and the number due to the land need for in cities. It is thought that in urban transformation works proposed as the solution for distorted urbanization in housing zones depending on rapidly increasing human population. AG practices can be evaluated as alternative open green spaces in slum in situ conservation and restoration applications areas. It was aimed in the present study to suggest an AG design on a land property decided to be green space in development plan of Erzurum city, Turkey belonging to government thought to be suitable for the poor in and around the area to make agricultural production. Such a design can not only provide economic support to families but also increase the size of green spaces in scope of urban transformation studies.

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