Mekânsal Ayrışmanın Bir Yeni Biçimi Olarak Kapalı/ Kapılı Siteler: Akkent Konutları Örneği
Gated Communities As A New Format Of Spatial Segregation: A Case Study In Akkent Housing Settlements

Summary/Abstract: Gated communities are rapidly increasing in our country because of globalization, neo-liberal economic policies, expanding new middle classes and their changing housing preferences. Gated communities which can be constructed quickly with emerging technologies to attract new owners/consumers through dicourses such as fear, security, richness of social facilities, more green spaces and more peaceful life. This study determines that socio-economic profiles, housing preferences and neighbourhood relations of the people who live in Akkent located in Ankara, Batıkent and Çakırlar province with literature and field research.

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