Home and street: Relationships of home-street in squatter settlements and urbanization

Hulya Turgut*, Meltem Aksoy, Nurbin Paker, Arda Inceoglu, Gulsun Saglamer

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Abstract

Urbanization in Turkey, just as in other developing countries, is a continuing process and is related with the rapid physical and social-cultural changes of the home environment. Within this process of change, squatter settlements develop in metropolises as a continuum of traditional-rural life styles. At the beginning of urbanization, squatter settlement patterns reflect the physical and socio-cultural characteristics of the original settlements of users changing with time from rural patterns to urban, or a kind of urban, patterns. Socio-cultural, political and economical changes have great effects on this transformation process. This paper aims to examine the interactions between cultural, behavioral, economical factors and spatial changes by analyzing relations between public and private spaces. In this context, various settlement patterns obtained from field studies by researchers will be analyzed. The first part includes a theoretical framework explaining dialectic oppositions in home and relationships between spatial, socio-cultural, behavioral and temporal dimensions. The second part focuses on an analytical study where culture-space interactions in rapidly urbanizing Turkey are analyzed social and spatial oppositions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)289-297
Number of pages9
JournalInternational Journal for Housing Science and Its Applications
Volume20
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - 1996

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