İDEALKENT

Yazarlar: Zeynep Gamze MERT, Filiz ERTÜRK

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:İzmit/Akçakoca,Historical core,Meaning of place,Place,Street,Street names

Özet: Place names are an important research area to discover the meaning of place as it reflects the place’s economic, political powers, social structure and environmental characteristics in urban environment. Understanding the streets’ meaning is the first step in understanding the city’s, region’s and country’s meaning; because their names are included in everyday life. In literature, there has not been any study which investigates the place meaning through street names. This study aims to define street names as investigators of the place meaning through a road map. The road map consists of three stages; acquiring indicators, documenting “street name information cards” and identifying the meaning of place. The meaning analysis approaches, semiologic and hermeneutic are followed in all stages. First, the indicators of street names are acquired through the 5W1H method; second, “street names information cards” are designed and documented; and the last, the meaning of place are identified through the new indicators produced by combining the information cards. Studying Izmit / Akçakoca Historical core, this paper shows that street names are the sign of the meaning of place from the past to the present, and they produce important information about the meaning of a place through a road map.

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