Kent Parklarının Lokasyonu ve Mekan Kalitesi Arasındaki İlişkisi: Kırşehir Tabiat Parkı ve Masal Park Örnekleri Üzerinden Karşılaştırmalı Bir İnceleme (original) (raw)

2023, SELCUK 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL SCIENCES

Public spaces are related to our social life and they are areas created by individuals in society. Squares, streets and parks that can be used freely by all segments of society constitute public space. Parks, one of the most important public spaces, are also read in the literature as a step for people to return to nature in the face of urbanization after the Industrial Revolution. According to Project for Public Spaces (PPS), parks are public spaces that improve the environment in which they are located and provide economic development, and they appear at different scales: neighborhood park, district park and city park. City parks are green areas that add importance to the city due to intense interaction and enable people to socialize. In addition, parks have many positive effects on people. For example, it is seen that there is an increase in individuals' free time and a decrease in their physical mobility with age, so parks are places where these individuals can spend their time productively. Parks also serve as playgrounds for children and support their social and mental development. It would not be wrong to say that these places strengthen the society's relationships with nature and animals in general, regardless of age. Of course, the location of the parks is important in order to fulfill all these functions. In this context, location selection for city parks is really important, and this study conducted on two important city parks of Kırşehir has revealed this importance. In this context, Tabiat Park and Masal Park in Kırşehir were analized according to four parameters in the Space Quality Diagram of PPS: sociability, uses & activities, comfort & image, and access & connections. During field visits, participatory observation was carried out on many sub-criteria, and these observations were photographed to reveal the publicity analysis of the parks. As a result of these analyses, it has been revealed that the location of the city parks is important as the reason for the most important separation of the two parks that make up the field and the differences between the criterion results.