TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluating the City Image of Istanbul Historic Peninsula through Academicians' Perspective
AU - Ögçe, Hüseyin
AU - Demr, Zeki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/9
Y1 - 2020/9
N2 - Urban studies are crucial to comprehend an environment with physical, social and psychological structures. There is no doubt that environmental psychology studies are important to this topic. This is why this research aims at presenting the city image of Istanbul Historic Peninsula through academicians' perspective. The study analyzes the relationships among safe, unsafe, likeable, unlikeable, preferable and unpreferable urban elements, and concludes a general city image of the research area. We conducted 32 surveys with other scholars and analyzed the surveys via MAXQDA 2018 Analytics Pro program. To obtain reliable results, the Kuckartz-Rädikers zeta similarity analysis was conducted and the similarity value was obtained as "0.86". The results show that the landmarks and districts are dominant in verbal maps. As for hand-drawn maps, landmarks and urban nodes are more dominant than other elements. Moreover, there are similarities between unsafe and unlikeable elements, and between likeable and safe elements. In conclusion, the urban legibility and image are intensively dominant in the eastern side of the research area (Atatürk Boulevard-oriented area) because of negative psychological boundaries.
AB - Urban studies are crucial to comprehend an environment with physical, social and psychological structures. There is no doubt that environmental psychology studies are important to this topic. This is why this research aims at presenting the city image of Istanbul Historic Peninsula through academicians' perspective. The study analyzes the relationships among safe, unsafe, likeable, unlikeable, preferable and unpreferable urban elements, and concludes a general city image of the research area. We conducted 32 surveys with other scholars and analyzed the surveys via MAXQDA 2018 Analytics Pro program. To obtain reliable results, the Kuckartz-Rädikers zeta similarity analysis was conducted and the similarity value was obtained as "0.86". The results show that the landmarks and districts are dominant in verbal maps. As for hand-drawn maps, landmarks and urban nodes are more dominant than other elements. Moreover, there are similarities between unsafe and unlikeable elements, and between likeable and safe elements. In conclusion, the urban legibility and image are intensively dominant in the eastern side of the research area (Atatürk Boulevard-oriented area) because of negative psychological boundaries.
KW - City image
KW - historic peninsula
KW - Istanbul
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100500146&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1142/S2345748120500165
DO - 10.1142/S2345748120500165
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85100500146
SN - 2345-7481
VL - 8
JO - Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies
JF - Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies
IS - 3
M1 - 2050016
ER -