Sketch: Journal of City and Regional Planning

Yazarlar: Yasemin İlkay

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DOI:10.5505/sjcrp.2021.43153

Anahtar Kelimeler:Street,Walking,Image of the city,Spatial appropriation,Psychogeography,Van.

Özet: Walking is an urban experience through which the urban space penetrates both our body and mind although we usually do not sense. Moreover, it is the most basic activity of marking and possessing urban common spaces. This study concentrates on how a walking body perceives, and possesses pattern of urban common spaces via his/her movements and pauses in Van case and aims to reveal differentiated walking districts. The research question will be answered via a synthesis of Kevin Lynch’s City Image perspective and six processes of place attachment and appropriation presented by David Seamon, analysing the small cases and student studies from 2016 to 2020, especially the mental maps and narratives collected from second grade city planning students in Van Yüzüncü Yıl University in addition to the pre-observations conducted during 2016-2018. Recognizing the differentiated urban regions via the activity of walking would create a path to take an input for policy and design processes to produce more qualitative and possessed pedestrian zones in the city.

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