Browsing Phd Degree / Doktora by Issue Date
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A specaial transportation modelling approach for the disadvantaged groups in urban traffic
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2000)It has been known that conventional transportation models and studies have been inadequate to solve the acute transportation problems in the urban areas to date that overwhelmingly those disadvantaged groups face. The major ... -
A retrospective evaluation of space organization principles in architecture (building on Mimar Kemalettin Street in İzmir)
(İzmir Institute of Technology, 2000)The fundamental idea aimed in this study is to invoke some architectural ways of handling the space organization problems in historic urban sites subjected to unhealthy transformations. The dominant function may be kept ... -
A methodology for geographical information systems based participatory decision making approach
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2001)Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to come up with better planning can be utilized. But unless the final decisions contain strategic and participatory decisions and are indeed an improvement upon previous solutions and ... -
Analysis of the interaction between theory and practice in urban planning: Understanding İzmir experience
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2002)Urban planning, as one of the factors in shaping the urban structure, aims to help to increase the quality of life both through making the necessary spatial arrangements and through development of the urban policies. ... -
An analiytical approach to semi-private and semi-public spaces within the context of urban housing pattern
(İzmir Institute of Technology, 2002)This study aims at understanding the changing public private relations in housing environments designed and produced after 80.s as a consequence of redefined context of 20th century life style and housing models. The study ... -
A critical view of sustainable architecture in Turkey: a proposal for the municipality of Seyrek
(İzmir Institute of Technology, 2003)This dissertation aims at developing a sustainable design process prioritizing locality in social, cultural, ecological, political, economic, technological, legalistic,and architectural terms. To this end, it aims first ... -
Costruction of time conception in architectural realm, Sigfrifd Giedion and space, time and architecture
(İzmir Institute of Technology, 2003)The main idea aimed in this dissertation is to deconstruct the transposition process of the concept of time from a term of art history into that of architecture.Thesis begins with the transforming effects of the art ... -
Evolution of trade centres in relation to changing trade activities
(İzmir Institute of Technology, 2003)This study examines contemporary shopping centres from a critical standpoint as spatial devices of the current global socio-economic system in which public realm is reduced to an active shopping realm. Thus, shopping centres ... -
Reducing risk in 'preservation project management': Re-definition of the 'assessment phase'
(İzmir Institute of Technology, 2004)The aim of this study is to redefine the pre-assessment phase as a sub-task that is 'pre-requisite' to the implementation and design phases of the preservation project, and to re-construct an effective project framework ... -
Determination of the place concept in reproduction process of built environment: Kordon, İzmir as a case study
(İzmir Institute of Technology, 2004)This research aims to argue the transformative effect of modernist processes on the reproduction of built environment with reference to the concepts "place" and "space" Place as lived space will be questioned under the ... -
An analytical study of the design potentials in kinetic architecture
(İzmir Institute of Technology, 2004)This dissertation is concerned with the potentials of kinetic structures in architecture; what they are, what they can do for us, and how we can go about designing them. Ultimately, it aims at proving the applicability of ... -
An evaluation of conceptual transpareny in architecture of office buildings in Turkey after 1980
(İzmir Institute of Technology, 2004)It has been known that today.s transparent building modelling and constructions have been inadequate to expression the transparent building characters in Turkey to date that overwhelmingly those office buildings. The major ... -
Institutional use of information technologies in city planning agencies: implications from Turkish metropolitan municipalities
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2004)This study argues the pivotal relationship between the computing technology and its organizational context. It focuses on nature of implementation in organizational settings that are becoming increasingly important. A ... -
Influence of urban geometry on public investment cost of urban technical infrastructure:a case study of sewer system in Aydın, Turkey
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2005)The design and implementation of urban technical infrastructure investments have been largely ignored within the traditional planning processes. This process is generallyperformed, first, by producing urban development ... -
Using machine learning techniques for early cost prediction of structural systems of buildings
(İzmir Institute of Technology, 2005)It is desirable to predict construction costs in the early design stages in order tomake sure that target costs are met and competitive prices are realized. This study investigates the possibility of predicting the cost ... -
Transformation of meaning of architectural space in cinema: The cases of "Gattaca" and "Truman show"
(İzmir Institute of Technology, 2005)This study aims to expose the transformation of meanings of architectural space in cinema films and the transformative impact of cinema. And in this exposition, Andrew Niccol's Gattaca (1997) and Peter Wier's "Truman Show" ... -
An evaluation of interventions in architectural conservation:new exterior additions to historic buildings
(İzmir Institute of Technology, 2005)Due to the physical, functional and/or economic reasons, historical buildings require interventions while adapting them to the contemporary conditions. Although, national laws based on the international charters and ... -
A critial evaluation on the concept of justice in planning process-judicial oversight: The Balçova and Narlıdere cases
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2005)This thesis aims at scrutinizing what is meant by the concept of justice and the ways the concept is being referred to in urban planning practice in Turkey. Aimed as such, the due analysis involves examination of how the ... -
Integrating renewable energy technologies into cities through urban planning: In the case of geothermal and wind energy
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2005)Focusing mainly on renewable energy, the overall aim of this dissertation is to introduce energy and energy related environmental considerations into the context of Turkish planning and urban policies. If planning in Turkey ... -
Instrumentalisation of natural science for the reconstruction of architectural konowledge: Lissitzky, Doesburg, Meyer, Teige
(İzmir Institute of Technology, 2006)The main idea aimed in this dissertation is to analyze the instrumentalisation process of natural scientific knowledge in a struggle for reconstructing architectural knowledge, between 1914 and 1945. This investigation has ...
