THE QUARTER: A COMPLEX OF NEIGHBOURHOOD UNITS IN TURKEY


Usta A., Usta G. K.

OPEN HOUSE INTERNATIONAL, vol.35, no.1, pp.66-73, 2010 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 35 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2010
  • Journal Name: OPEN HOUSE INTERNATIONAL
  • Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.66-73
  • Karadeniz Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

In history, spatial organizations for houses have been changed and improved depending on the natural conditions, well-being of people, utilization of resourses, population density, family structure and urbanization rate. It can be said the spatial organization of housing that they are both in a relationship with culture and they are a total configuration of social, demographical, psycological, human behaviorial and environmental structure. Any housing settlement in Turkish Islamic tradition is macro and micro scaled organization in which social relation and cultural characteristics of society that are necessary for physical environment and society reflect.