Browsing by Author "Velibeyoğlu, Koray"

Analyses of four urban squares in İzmir according to the leading urban design literature

Ceyhan Abacı, Fatma (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018-12)

The squares are the significant elements of the urban public spaces that provide the users different experience in the city, activate their city life and they are human oriented places for cities and societies. The squares ...

E-planning applications in Turkish local governments

Velibeyoğlu, Koray (Information Science Reference, 2010)

This chapter examines the pivotal relationship between e-planning applications and their organizational context. It employs various evaluation frameworks by searching explicit and implicit structures behind the implementation ...

An evaluation methodology for the tangible and intangible assets of city-regions: The 6K1C framework

Velibeyoğlu, Koray; Yiğitcanlar, Tan (Inderscience Enterprises, 2010-10)

Together with hard and soft networks, tangible and intangible regional assets play an important role in the knowledge-based development of competing city-regions. The aim of this paper, therefore, is to investigate the ...

Evaluation of creative industry clusters through the ecosystem approach: Investigation of weedding wear sector in İzmir

Mengi, Onur (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2015-07)

The emergence of new economy has brought the creative industries onto the urban research agenda. Despite the extensive literature on the subject, there is need of a more in-depth approach to investigation the unique ...

Exploring temporaray usage opportunities of urban public spaces for event organizations

Şenyol, Özlem (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2010)

The adjustment of urban spaces to the necessitated usages which is resulted from the rapidly altering daily practices is a difficult process. Since the traces of that alteration are widely seen in the public spaces, the ...

Interrogating time, space and place within technological approach

Çevikayak, Murat (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2011)

Technology was and is the most powerful tool, humankind used to develop civilizations and improve the quality of their environment and life. Beside this fact, humankind comprehends and creates solutions in their physical ...

An investigation of public spaces in İzmir from a place management perspective

İnanç, Eray Mustafa (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2017-12)

In this study, the development of place management, its constituent elements and the management of various public places in the case of İzmir have been investigated. Place management incorporates the effects of place ...

Knowledge-based Urban development: The local economic development path of Brisbane, Australia

Yiğitcanlar, Tan; Velibeyoğlu, Koray (SAGE Publications, 2008-08)

Knowledge-based development strategies play an important role in supporting local economic development of cities in the knowledge era. This paper investigates local knowledge-based urban development policies of Brisbane, ...

Low carbon neighborhood: Walking and cycling priority urban design

Gündel, Hande (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018-06)

Following The Industrial Revolution, along with newly developing job opportunities, a rapid migration from rural to urban has begun. With the increasing flow of migration, the urban enlarged. With the increase of the ...

Place attachment in the urban design guides: Case of Buca

Bayram, Arzu (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018)

This study investigates physical ties of inhabitants, to Dumlupınar neighbourhood and its surroundings where situated in the district of Buca and has a conservation plan, in the context of urban design guides. While cities ...

Place management of a creative city: The case of Izmir

Mengi, Onur; Durmaz Drinkwater, Sıdıka Bahar; Öner, Aslı Ceylan; Velibeyoğlu, Koray (Inderscience Enterprises, 2017)

This study investigates how place management is used to render a creative city through the combination of soft factors as intangible characteristics and hard factors as tangible characteristics of the built environment. ...

Preface

Yiğitcanlar, Tan; Velibeyoğlu, Koray; Baum, Scott (Information Science Reference, 2008)

In the rapidly growing knowledge economy, the talent and creativity of those around us will be increasingly decisive in shaping economic opportunity. Creativity can be described as the ability to produce new and original ...

Queensland's smart state initiative: A successful knowledge based urban development strategy?

Yiğitcanlar, Tan; Velibeyoğlu, Koray (Information Science Reference, 2008)

During the last two decades, knowledge-based development has become an important mechanism for knowledge economies. In a knowledge economy, information and communication technology is extensively seen as a potentially ...

Rising knowledge cities: The role of urban knowledge precincts

Yiğitcanlar, Tan; Velibeyoğlu, Koray; Martinez-Fernandez, Cristina (Emerald Group Publishing, 2008)

Purpose - The paper seeks to investigate the changing and challenging spatial nature of the rising knowledge cities' knowledge precincts. Design/methodology/approach - The paper reviews the literature on recent knowledge ...

Rural-ecological commons: Case of pastures in İzmir

Hazar, Dalya (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018-06)

The main research interest of this study is to determine the conflicts on the pastures, which are defined as the rural-ecological commons that are important for biodiversity and ecological sustainability. The study focuses ...

Spatial transformations in Istanbul CBD: The role of ICT?

Geçer Sargın, Feral; Avar, Adile; Velibeyoğlu, Koray; Saygın, Mustafa Ömür (Information Science Reference, 2008)

Now with the intensive use of information and communication technologies, many cities around the world are competing to become a global city. Istanbul is enumerated within the first 50 cities in the globalization process, ...

Spontaneously-developed inner city technology precincts: Case of İzmir

Vuruşkan, Gülnur (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2010)

At the end of 1990s, knowledge became the fourth factor of production beside: land, labor and capital. Knowledge sector as education, R&D, mass media, information technologies, and information services had a rapid entrance ...

Understanding the supply side: ICT experience of Marmara region, Turkey

Velibeyoğlu, Koray; Yiğitcanlar, Tan (Information Science Reference, 2008)

Marmara region's local governments in Turkey are setting the benchmark for the country in the implementation of spatial information systems and e-governance. The chapter aims to shed light on organizational realities of ...

Urban design toolkit for creative place-making and cultural tourism: The case of Alaçatı

İnce, İrem (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2013)

This study investigates relationship between creativity and cultural tourism in the case of Alaçatı. In that sense, the new concept of creativity with various terms including creative economy, creative class, creative ...

Urban information systems in Turkish local governments

Velibeyoğlu, Koray (IGI Global, 2005)

Since the end of 1980s, different sectors have implemented geographical information systems (GIS) in Turkey. A study on GIS market in Turkey indicates that municipalities are the primary customers (Gülersoy & Yigiter, ...