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Yazarlar: Açalya Alpan

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Appropriation of Space,Production of Urban Space,Participative Process,Participation of Children,Eskişehir

Özet: Researches conducted in the field of environmental psychology have revealed that childhood has a particular role in the attachment of people to their urban environment. Evolving out from this finding, this work assumes that people, who takes a role in the production of urban space during their childhood, will contribute to sustainability by keeping these spaces when they become an adult.  In this context, children are both a spatial and a communal stakeholder of today through their current abilities, ideas and needs, and a potential active citizen of the future through their personalities and abilities to develop and to improve by their childhood experiences. This work, by taking time as the variable in approaching children, proposes a model of participation for children to have a role in the production phases of urban space in order to make them appropriate the space when they become an adult. The design of the participative process by dividing the production of space into phases is the original contribution of the work. In this way, both enlarging the concept of participation, and by grouping the phases, making children appropriate a particular responsibility or the final products of a phase is aimed at. The model is developed for the Small Industrial Site in Eskişehir Odunpazarı, which is declared as an urban renewal area in the scope of article 73 of the Municipality Law number 5393.

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