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Yazarlar: Yasemin İLKAY

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Urban grespace,Urban grepolicy,Representational space,Public space,Ankara

Özet: Urban green areas, such as parks, gardens, recreation spots, urban forests and groves, penetrate urban pattern limiting the built environment and supporting the delicate balance among occupied and void spaces. Urban greenery is on one the hand natural, on the other hand urban open space. As cities evolved, the ‘public’ space dimension has been added to being ‘natural’ and ‘open’; urban green turned out to be meeting spaces where people come together and socialize while contacting with both the nature and the other citizens; gaining new social and symbolic content. As public spaces, urban green areas have a two-folded appropriation: they are open to anyone (perception and experience) as public property; besides, they are regulated by state institutions. On the basis of this conflict, urban green areas are (re)produced and can be analysed as perceived, conceived and lived spaces.   This article problematizes the technical and political motives shaping the reproduction of urban greenery in Ankara, focusing on the concept of ‘conceived space’; and discusses how urban green has turned out to be representational spaces. The main question of the study is: within reproduction process how far urban greenery has transformed from its natural origins and what urban green has recently been in Ankara in relation with the city and what it represents so far. Determined three representational modes demonstrated the shift in definition of urban green from a natural to a political entity: (1) ‘a policy instrument’; (2) ‘a context of policy’; and (3) ‘a site of policy’.

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