The form of social life: seeing beyond informality in emergent design qualities, the case of Yüksel Street in Ankara

Cihanger Ribeiro D.

Journal of Urban Design, cilt.28, sa.1, ss.95-113, 2023 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 28 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/13574809.2022.2091983
  • Dergi Adı: Journal of Urban Design
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Art Source, Design & Applied Arts Index, Educational research abstracts (ERA), Environment Index, Geobase, ICONDA Bibliographic, Index Islamicus, Public Affairs Index, DIALNET
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.95-113
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Lived space, public space, socio-spatial, everyday life, spatial dialectics, street design, CITIES, PLACE
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.The general tendency of most socio-spatial research is to separate the theory of lived space from everyday realities. On the contrary, this article aims to connect urban design and everyday life sociology. It follows a spatial ethnography method with data collected during two-year fieldwork in Yüksel Street, a central public space in Ankara, Turkey. As such, the article contains three lines of discussion: locality, everyday life and spatiality. Locality identifies Turkish cities in a fashion that renders vague the formal/informal and the South/North divides. Everyday life refers to the social activities and their physical imprints. Spatiality helps identify these local spatial characteristics as emergent design values by users. Based on the results, the study discusses a new terminology beyond informality capable of studying urban streets as spaces accommodating spontaneity and diversity.