Borders (in between): A City within a City Decoding Different Morphologies of Fragmented Housing

Hatice Kalfaoglu Hatipoglu,Seher Beyza Mahmut

doi:10.13189/cea.2020.080515

Hatice Kalfaoglu Hatipoglu, Seher Beyza Mahmut

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https://doi.org/10.13189/cea.2020.080515

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Abstract

Cities act as living organisms that bring people together and contain different social aspects in heterogeneity. When people with similar lifestyles regarding income and culture come together in enclosed groups, places are divided into physical and social gated communities which create unseen borders between different groups of people. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the effects of segregated spaces separated by physical or social borders in the city. Firstly, gated communities, which are presented as contemporary walled island, will be discussed by focusing on the concept of segregation as a result of these borders in relation with morphology. Accordingly, an evaluation framework has been developed on three main scales, which are based on the Conzen's classification of space, to create a systematic overview to analyze the segregated morphology. Sinpas Ege Valley Housing Project and its surrounded slums, which were located on the Dikmen Valley of Ankara having a different typology and borders in-between, is chosen as a representative case of the aforementioned segregation to analyze the effects of these unseen borders on space typologies, people's space usage and activity patterns.

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The city, which integrates people through the development of social interactions in everyday life, is a social entity [1]
Habitat selection and choice of particular environmental quality cause a clustering in city so that the city becomes a set of areas of different groups which tend to define themselves in terms of "us" and "them" [2]
This study aims to analyze the morphological components of urban segregation in different typologies to highlight the fragmentation of urban space through different kind of social entities as a result of physical/social borders

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The city, which integrates people through the development of social interactions in everyday life, is a social entity [1]. Habitat selection and choice of particular environmental quality cause a clustering in city so that the city becomes a set of areas of different groups which tend to define themselves in terms of "us" and "them" [2]. A clustering process tends to occur in cities based on perceived homogeneity, differing interpretations of environmental quality, lifestyles, symbol systems and defenses against overload and stress. The space is defined as a consumption object which provides a place to the individual For this reason, economic restructuring triggers changes in the global city’s structure [3]. While the city is being spatially fragmented; the society is fragmented by socio-economic and cultural divisions These two processes of fragmentation in space and social structure are mutually interdependent. As a result of these processes, the city becomes a segregated organism and is divided by social groups that cause conflict

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