TITLE:
Comparative Analysis of the Quality Perception in Public Spaces of Duzce City
AUTHORS:
Elif Kutay Karacor, Ezgi Akcam
KEYWORDS:
Public Space, Ownership, Management, Quality Perception
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.4 No.3,
August
12,
2016
ABSTRACT: Public spaces in urban areas were affected from neoliberal policies in terms of their
management and ownership. Accordingly, several researchers handled public spaces
from different perspectives considering on advantages or disadvantages of neoliberal
policies. Four key attributes of successful places: accessibility, comfort, socialization,
and activity are accepted as quality indicators of today’s urban spaces and they became
an outline for this study. The aim of this study is to evaluate the quality of different
type public spaces and to determine the reason why these differences. Therefore,
quality differences resulting from management and ownership were evaluated in
scope of public space literature. Our findings put forward that ownership of spaces is
not a significant factor perceiving the quality of spaces. Besides, publicly owned urban
spaces were found as not always preferable and the ownership was not a basis
factor for quality perception.