The phenomenon of globalization happening in today’s world exerts influence over developing countries and is tried to shape societies’ economic, social and cultural life in line with the countries’ economic goals. Globalization process rapidly increasing its effect to hold the world economy affects unavoidably our life space through its results and in turn, our urban structure. Urban landscape, one of the main components of urban structure, also undergoes a change during period of change and begins to gradually lose its fundamental duty within the city. Change requirement brought about by globalization leads to any changes, including way of providing municipal services, urban physical structure, city identity and even life-style of town-dwellers, and these changes have occurred through large-scale projects most apparently. These projects developed as capital-driven weaken the fundamental principles of planning in urban areas. In such an environment, drastic changes have occurred in the planning and designing of the urban landscape and its managements within the process. Public urban landscape areas have replaced with private urban landscape ones in many places. The impact of this change that has taken place alters the perception of space in morphological, physical, social and administrative aspects. What are changes in these phenomena, how do they occur and these changes are having today to what extent are a situation that should be questioned. Urban landscape, one of precursors of city structure, firstly needs to be correctly identified and perceived so that all of these questions can be answered. Globalization process that begins to rapidly surge in all of Turkey in 2000s starting with the 1980s, changing content of urban landscape constituting the most important elements of public space within the frame of changing urban developments depending on global economic processes and design approaches will be discussed through Trabzon potter urban transformation field in this report
Primary Language | English |
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Journal Section | Research Article |
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Publication Date | April 1, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2017 Volume: 2 Issue: 2 |