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Movement areas of urban life are roads, parks, squares and city centres. As Lynch (1960) defines, cities have path, edges, districts, landmarks and nodes. These form characteristics enable to find a way and direction in the city, perform urban activities. These urban components provide a permanent visual integrity on urban identity in the mind. The urban components have various functions, scope and visual features such as cityscape, historical pattern, city squares, central business districts, streets, facades, parks, urban furniture, signal elements, sculptures and ait elements. Urban furniture include benches, lighting equipments, bins, directive signboards at parks and central areas. Urban furniture make the life at urban outdoors easy and they should be designed considering their visual features harmonising with environment. The aim of this study is to research how urban furniture can harmonize with urban identity and life on the basis of the assignments of the students of department of industrial design. The evaluation will be carried out through project images of design students as a method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At present we have a wide variety of industrial products. Structure in design is very important, one of the most important concepts in nature and also in different disciplines such as architecture and arts. The value of such a concept is to be used as an advantage in the area of industrial product design and also increasing the structural studies in that area will be helpful. This article is based on the structural studies which will be useful the field of design. In this study we searched about the affects of the structural characteristics of industrial product design. The two structural characteristics such as structure and material are examined for their relationship with some other factors in production process, which are effective factors in product design. One of the objectives of this study is to deal with the structure concept, which has lack of interest in industrial product design, in details with all the means of utility, and though explain the theme "structure in design" from a different perspective. Another objective of the study is to make searches about how to increase the usage of the structural studies in the areas of design and product development, thus being a guide for those kinds of works. It is studied to improve a method which will prove that the structural studies help design from a technical point of view and to the ability of creativity. It is aimed to make the studies to be directed to create variation in design. Also improving a method to develop the designs technically is among the objectives. It is also aimed at to make a research on the topics such as creating variety on design, and increasing the quality of the designed products. In the study it is intended to analyze a variety of designs with different characteristics and different qualities, which are involved in the existent design literature and also in our daily life. Though classifying the designs which have similar structural characteristics in the same group and constituting a classification system for the industrial designs are also aimed at in this study. Knowledge of the structure and knowledge of the structural characteristics will be useful in design area and in taking structural decisions. Various methods are used in this study. These are: 1) analysis of the different product designs, 2) measurement with the strain gauge technology, 3) tension analysis on the computer and design. Different structural characteristics of the industrial products and types of their structures are investigated.… [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]