TY - JOUR T1 - Open Urban Spaces for Flexible Urbanism: An Analysis of Parks in Gaziantep, Hatay, and Kahramanmaras as Earthquake Parks AU - Ünkaracalar, Serap Sevgi AU - Aycı, Hilal PY - 2023 DA - June JF - Gazi University Journal of Science Part B: Art Humanities Design and Planning JO - GUJSPB PB - Gazi Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 2147-9534 SP - 337 EP - 352 VL - 11 IS - 2 LA - en AB - Flexible urbanism is defined as adopting urban places for different functions, usages, and users without radical changes or newly constructed. Flexibility in open urban spaces gains importance especially in emergent situations. The aim of the study is discussed to open urban spaces as parks opportunities and requirements in the context of their usage after a natural disaster. 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