Batı kentlerinin gelişmesinde bir politika aracı olarak tasarım

Abstract

Aesthetic priorities which were given to design in the built environment have changed considerably in recent years. The development of global economy and capitalistic process has brought new understanding and explanations concerning cities and their development within which the design of the built environment is seen not only in an aesthetic, but also in a social context. Furthermore, in the new concept of strategic city planning, urban identity and built environment, thus urban design, have gained the potential to be important policy tools. In order to respond to new expectations, a new concept of design has developed which is more comprehensive and more politicised. The restructuration of the institutions and values required by this new concept is intimately related to some social referances which are its base. Among the difficulties that developing countries as Turkey meet in such a field, the lack or inefficiency of these referances seem to be of primary importance.