Determining The Affordances Provided by Urban Open Spaces to Different Age Groups

Year 2017, Volume: 5 Issue: 3, 1 - 12, 29.09.2017

Serap Yılmaz Sema Mumcu Abdullah Çiğdem

Abstract

This study evaluates
the concept of affordances that constitute an environmental initiative in urban
settings, which provide open spaces for people of all ages. The affordances are
evaluated in two ways: objective and subjective affordances. The objective
affordances address the potential possibilities of the spatial components that
depend on the predicted and planned activity for users. However, subjective
affordances are the unplanned affordances explored through users’ creativity
and skills. Depending on the classification, the affordances of open urban
spaces in Trabzon city center are examined in terms of its benefits to
different age groups.The results have shown that the perception and evaluation
of the affordances are different among age groups.

Keywords

Urban Open Areas, User, Spatial affordances, Objective affordances, Subjective affordances

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