ARCHTHEO '16 X. INTERNATIONAL THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE CONFERENCE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (original) (raw)

Since a large portion of the world population began to live in cities, intensive migrations from rural areas to populated urban centers have begun. The search for different housing for affluent segments who are troubled with complex, dense and heterogeneous structures of cities has triggered "gated communities" in cities. Gated communities cause socio-spatial segregation, the fragmentation of urban land and particular income groups benefit from this fragmentation whereas others are not allowed to use those areas. Gated communities have been an object of consumption promoted as "ideal home" and "ideal life" which presented a combination of fiction and prestige. Beneath this created environment the main goal is set to finctionalized the case of identity with isolating same groups around a closed area. In that way the sense of belonging is created by goal. Belongings of determined zone of cities within held of common groups and using this zones like divided into plots, causing a perish for common areas and common life based on the city. In that case using isolatedly different places by different (other) groups into city, causing to fade out richness in plenty of spaces. In conclusion of discriminating spaces make this issue harder which gathering the pieces of discriminated community again and again eventually rebuilding the communication socially. This discrimination and differentiation hurt the communications among different stages that build up the society. Eventually this phenomenon affects usage of common space in a negative way and collapse the union of society so finally causes the tension among differed and departed social groups in society. Thus they became tools of marketing, status and consumption has become a way of life as the object that defines excellence. These settlements which are build on the limited relationship with the city are seen worth investigating with their rapidly increasing numbers in the city, the space they occupy and their population. It is important to investigate the evolution of gated communities, the reasons and mechanenisms how and why they are spreading in the world and in Turkey.