TY  - JOUR
T1  - Legibility of Neighborhood Park: A Case Study of Trabzon City Centre
AU  - Ozkan, Doruk Gorkem
AU  - Cıgdem, Abdullah
AU  - Akyol, Duygu
PY  - 2018
DA  - December
JF  - The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences
JO  - EPESS
PB  - ISRES Publishing
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2587-1730
SP  - 170
EP  - 176
VL  - 11
LA  - en
AB  - The growing need for housing in parallel with populationgrowth has made the importance of open spaces more prominent in rapidly growingcities. Among them, urban parks and management for open spaces are one of theimportant parts of urban planning. Neighborhood parks are the most basicelement of municipal outdoor management systems in particular. The mainfunction of the neighborhood parks is to provide socio-cultural interactionfacilities that meet user needs, are such as accessibility, legibility, havemany functions together and enable the active and passive activities of users.High legibility level, well-designed parks at the neighborhood level serve as asocial and activity center for the users, transforming into high-level, livingspaces. In this context, interest in the perception and experience of thecommunity, neighborhood parks has reached a very important point today. Today,however, research continues to seek answers to the question of how people reactto and use parks in their living environment. One of the concepts that hasrecently become the focal point in this regard is the concept of legibility. Inthis context, this study aimed to reveal the legibility level of three parksrandomly selected from the neighborhood parks located in Ortahisar district ofTrabzon province and completed in 2017. In this direction, the legibility leveland the physical and characteristic features and activities of the neighborhoodparks were examined in this study, and their suitability and deficiencies forlandscape design and usage were determined. As a result of the research, it wasdetermined that the legibility level of the examined neighborhood parks is lowand the usage level of the parks is low, resulting in inanimate spaces andsuggestions for improvement of these parks are presented.
KW  - Open spaces
KW  - Neighbourhood parks
KW  - Legibility
KW  - Structural equation modeling
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UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/epess/article/491208
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/586840
ER  -