Urban green spaces contributing to sustainable development of cities are of the characteristics of
increasing human quality of life. It is a requirement for more comfortable physical and psychological life to predict
the needs in a place resulting from its physical, physiological, psychological and social structures and to shape such
environment consisting of open spaces according to such needs. Today’s cities have turned out to be the clusters of
concrete structures due to rapid human population and distorted and dense urbanisation. Urban human quality of
life is also negatively affected by environmental problems such as air, water, soil and noise pollution and the use
of arable lands out of their main aims. Excessive building density in cities due to various reasons increases rants
on lands and confines the ratio of public areas like green spaces. Main material of the study is urban small gardens,
a type of community gardens which can be evaluated to be alternative green space sources in urban design works,
several examples of which can be seen abroad from old days to present. Such garden types are known in Turkey in
the names of small gardens, public gardens, urban gardens, hobby gardens and urban allotment gardens. As study
method, related literature review was performed from Turkey and abroad and required etude, analysis and synthesis
methods were used. As a conclusion, large cities lack of green spaces and recreation areas. In the present study, the
role and importance of urban gardens, a type of allotment gardens seen for a long time in the world, in liveable and
sustainable urban design is focused by considering that in urban design studies, urban gardens can be evaluated as
an alternative green space use. Positive contributions of urban small gardens were put forward on humans and the
increase of green area rate.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Engineering |
Journal Section | Peyzaj Mimarlığı / Landscape Architecture |
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Publication Date | March 31, 2018 |
Submission Date | September 21, 2017 |
Acceptance Date | November 6, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2018 |