Determination of Environmental Ethics Approaches of Urban and Regional Planning Students

Urban planners who are environmentally conscious and aware will take action to take responsibility, inform, and control. Raising environmental awareness is essential in urban planning education to understand environmental problems. Therefore, it is necessary to educate urban planning students on environmental ethics. This study investigates the environmental attitudes and behaviors of urban and regional planning students, who will shape the environment in the future within the context of the value-belief-norm theory. Moreover, to find clues that will shape environmental education in the course curriculum. The study included 226 students from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in the Faculty of Architecture of Yıldız Technical University (YTU) and Amasya University (AU). Questionnaire data has been evaluated using principal components analysis, correlation analysis, T-test, and ANOVA analysis. According to the study findings, urban planning students have adopted biocentric, ecocentric, and anthropocentric value orientations. The study has found that students with ecocentric value orientation tend to show more pro-environmental behavior. The study concludes that the student’s characteristics also affect how they show pro-environmental behavior and evaluate environmental policies. In conclusion, focusing on ecocentric approaches in urban planning education can positively affect adopting pro-environmental behavior and policies. Additionally, study findings show that students with relatively better economic conditions are more inclined to have a biocentric value orientation. Based on the literature and these study findings, pro-environmental behavior is not a single-dimensional structure caused only by individuals' personal and professional characteristics. People's environmental attitudes and behaviors are shaped by their upbringing, school, friends, and culture. It shows that pro-environmental behavior has a multi-dimensional complex structure, and a conceptual framework can provide guidance to explain these kinds of behavior

The effect of public facade characteristics on changing pedestrian behaviors

The facades that define the public open space shape the pedestrian behavior by affecting the visual perception of the pedestrians. In the literature on facade and human interaction, there are pioneering studies in the perspective of environmental perception, but there is a lack and method limitation on the effect of the facade on pedestrian behavior. For this reason, the research aims to evaluate pedestrian behaviors in two areas that are variable in terms of facades, together with video analysis and heat maps. Areas of similar typology in Istanbul’s Kadıköy district are compared because of the temporary exterior decoration of the historical candy store in case 1 during the New Year’s Eve. According to the research findings, there is a significant difference between the quantity of pedestrians exhibiting stagnant and flowing behaviors and the distribution of these pedestrians in the space. In addition, the subcategories of fluid and static behavior in evening and day conditions also reveal interpretable results regarding the front. The results of the research reveal that the facade features of the public space significantly affect the pedestrian behavior, and therefore this issue should also gain importance in the future of public space design

Kentsel Mekân Örgütlenmesinin Yaşlıların Kentsel Etkinlikleri Üzerindeki Etkisi, İstanbul ve Viyana Örneği

Çalışmanın amacı yaşlılıkta meydana gelen değişimler dikkate alınarak, yaşlı gereksinimlerine bağlı konut alanı ve çevresi tasarım ölçütlerini ortaya koymak, yaşlıların kentsel yaşama katılımlarını araştırmak, kentsel tasarım memnuniyetlerinin bu katılımı etkileyip etkilemediğini sorgulamaktır. Bu çalışmanın diğer bir amacı ise, İstanbul ve yaşlılık sorunları ile Türkiye’den önce yüzleşmiş, çözüm projeleri geliştirilen, AB standartlarına sahip Avusturya’nın Viyana kentindeki yaşlılık ve kamusal mekân durumunu karşılaştırmak ve çalışmadan elde edilen çıkarımlar ile İstanbul’un gelecekte yaşlılar için daha yaşanabilir bir kent olması adına kentsel tasarım eylemlerine veri oluşturmaktır