Özkan, B., E. Küçükerbaş, A. Kaplan, Ş. Hepcan, E. Malkoç & H. Sönmez, 2003, Muğla kenti kamusal diş mekanlari bağlaminda master plan çalişmasi, EGE UNIVERSITY, İZMİR
- Author : Özkan, B., E. Küçükerbaş, A. Kaplan, Ş. Hepcan, E. Malkoç & H. Sönmez
- Year : 2003
- Title English : Master planning study on establishing an urban wide public space network
- Publisher : EGE UNIVERSITY
- Publisher's Location : İZMİR
- ISBN : 975-93154-0-8
- Pages : 88
- Edition : 1nd
- Abstract : This study examines the possibility of designating and implementing an urban wide public space network that constituted of randomly dispersed and not interrelated public spaces and potential greenways across the city of Muğla. Although Muğla is one of the major coastal cities in Turkey with its worldwide tourism districts, the city center falls behind other settlements in terms of quality of social life, physical layout, economic investments, and tourism revenues. In 2001, the local government commissioned the Department of Landscape Architecture of Ege University to prepare a comprehensive master plan towards achieving a corporate public space network as well as development strategies to ameliorate the above failures. The process of master planning developed clearly illustrated a blueprint for addressing each of existing or potential public spaces and greenways as integrated components of the network. The process involved short, medium and long term pursuits that the local government could achieve for implementing phases of the master plan and its output ‘network’ respectively.
- Comments : Master planning for public open spaces and greenways has been widely acknowledged as an emerging and conceivable field of study in guiding future development scenarios of urban settlements in Turkey. Therefore, this study is the first example in Turkey that Muğla municipality requested a comprehensive master planning study from the Department of Landscape Architecture, Ege University in 2001.
- Outline : Although the province of Muğla has achieved a worldwide tourism reputation, the city remained only the transition zone to some tourism districts due to the lack of its inert capability to promote economic investments and enhance the quality of social life and physical infrastructure alike. The local government has foreseen that any interconnected open space system across the city would serve as a means to offer a new urban wide vision and prestige to compensate for the disadvantages. Consequently, we developed a master planning study along with a report for the City of Muğla, with a special emphasis on guiding and reshaping the actual - potential physical development of the settlement.