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The public value of public spaces within existing market paradigms is being ignored. The existence of the public sphere is a fundamental requirement for preserving a democratic environment in everyday life. The question of which functional spaces can revitalize the values of publicness is essential. This article takes a critical look at the erosion of democracy and publicness. It contributes to urbanism by looking at it from a social science perspective. The review article method associates different interdisciplinary concepts used in various disciplines, It is a theoretical article that tries to go beyond the typical evaluation of spaces to examine the qualities that revitalize publicness using conceptual relations to draw attention to the fact that the functions of different architectural structures can also effectively revitalize publicness. Based on this, it argues that the variety of functions considered in the context of social facilities in the urbanism literature can be grouped according to different definitions. The article questions how social facilities associated with publicness can function as social infrastructure in the context of public space. This perspective requires one to look at spaces in urban planning using qualitative definitions, which, in turn, requires one to examine the concept of social infrastructure using definitions from social disciplines due to the fact that a human-centered perspective is necessary in order to identify spaces with the potential to revitalize publicness. This theoretical approach looks at planning from the perspective of communicative rationality. In addition, it is also essential to understand the types of social infrastructure elements to consider as public space tools in terms of the qualities of living publicness that bring the public sphere into existence. This makes the qualities one wants to define as social infrastructure essential. Tools that function as public spaces should offer qualities that revitalize publicness and thus diversify the public sphere. This article analyzes the qualitative relations between the concepts of publicness and social infrastructure to reveal the kind of social infrastructure needed to provide the qualities that revitalize publicness. One can consider social facilities as social infrastructure tools in the context of their role in the development of social reinforcement that strengthens the public sphere. With this perspective, the article proposes that the limits of the concept of public space in instrumental planning can be transcended and that new and contrarian spatial tools can also be considered in this context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increase in the proportion of the elderly population in the society can be easily noted as an important change that humanity has faced with industrialization and urbanization. This situation can also be expressed as a process that is on the agenda of world societies, especially in Europe, and in Turkey. Along with the definitions of ageing and ageing experiences are also different from each other. What is the effect of geographical space and location on ageing? To find an answer to this research question, semi-structured surveys were conducted face-to-face with 101 people in the town of Bahadın in Sorgun district of Yozgat. Some of the participants (15) stay in the Bahadın Ageing Foundation Center, which was established in this town in 2019. Although 18 people stay at home, they receive services from this centre (such as cleaning the house, burning the stove, cooking) and the remaining 68 people do not have direct contact with this foundation even though they live in the same town. The obtained data were analyzed systematically using the SPSS26 program. Although the elderly residents of the rural town of Bahadın note some limitations such as access to health services, they are generally satisfied with the area they live in and do not consider an alternative place to continue the rest of their lives. In addition, it has been determined that Bahadın Ageing Foundation, which was established with a civil initiative, made positive contributions to the function and meaning of the space and location for the elderly people. This foundation, which currently serves a limited number of people, potentially offers an alternative option for the old age stages of the residents, as is often seen in cities. From the perspective of ageing, this situation becomes meaningful in terms of being functional while reducing space and location-based limitations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It is a known fact that the arrangements of the comfort conditions for physical environment elements light, sound, heat, etc. in the context of the function of the spaces and occupants characteristics contributes positively to the issues such as occupant's performance, health, and reduction of energy consumption. These arrangements should be realized both during the design of new buildings and renovation existing structures. One of the renovation procedures in an existing building is to restore the building back into service by strengthening the structural system damaged in the earthquake. The aim of the study can be summarized as proposing a method for determining and improving the visual comfort in buildings damaged by earthquake and renewed by strengthened the structural system, and in this context, determining the changes in the visual comfort conditions building whose structural system has been strengthened, and making some improvement suggestions. In line with this aim, in accordance with the proposed method, the lighting conditions of the building before and after the reinforcement in the classrooms, which are assumed to be typical of an existing education building, were examined and evaluated in the context of relevant standards, and then some improvement designs were made. The findings revealed that although the natural lighting conditions were more favorable before reinforcement in the examined building, it was generally not sufficient in terms of the standards in both cases, and new designs were made to meet the necessary conditions. Thus, the methods proposed in the study and the examination methods and suggestions used specifically for the classrooms will contribute to the creation of suitable conditions for visual comfort and energy efficiency in the spaces in the strengthened buildings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban identity is the sum of the tangible and intangible qualities of the cities and the city differs from the others with these qualities. In parallel with the urban development, physical environments change and transform in interaction with the historical fabric. The buildings shaped in the cities we live in appear as the concrete reflection of the way of life, aesthetic understanding and the technology used by the cultures that have existed in the settlement in the historical process. The environmental effects of the monumental structures in this built environment and the use of open spaces are effective in creating and shaping the urban identity. In addition to the worship function of the monumental structures, the usage of open spaces of mosques like socialization, meeting, gathering etc. is important within the scope of urban memory. Within the scope of this study, it is aimed to evaluate the transformation process of Kırşehir Ahi Evran Zawiya, which has been organized with different applications in the historical process, and to investigate the contribution of the indoor and outdoor spaces of the building to the urban identity. The role of using the open spaces of the building for functions such as fairs, shows and ceremonies within the scope of annual Ahilik Week in keeping the urban memory active has been investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Design and planning areas seek solutions to the technical, aesthetic and functional requirements of the spaces for social and economic needs. These solutions focus on the mutual benefits of spaces and their users. While every space exists for a user, the expectations of the user from the place manage this existence process. From the smallest scale to the largest scale, the design process is a collocation where the designer evaluates the function of the space and the expectations of the space users together. This collocation action also includes the organization created by a process. For this reason, it is important to investigate the design requirements that have existed from the beginning or emerged over time in the design and planning process of architectural structures. This study aims to determine the process starting from the perception of space and the necessity of the spatial arrangement method in order to prepare a design guide for environmental character and experiential evaluations as a requirement of the spatial organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cultural memory refers to the memory of societies that are passed down from generation to generation. There are many factors for ensuring cultural transmission. One of the most important of these factors is space. Space has significance, especially for cultural productions that have been developed depending on a specific space, by hosting the culture and providing a suitable space for cultural transmission. This study investigates the place of tomb sites, believed to belong to Yunus Emre, in terms of transmission of cultural memory related to him from generation to generation. Yunus Emre (1240/41-1320/21) is a significant person who influenced many Turkish culture areas, such as literature, art, history, and music. From the 13th century, which is accepted as the century in which he lived, until the 20th century when his name came to the fore in the world of science, he existed in a limited way in written sources with his legends and poems and widely in the oral cultural environment. He has been the subject of many academic studies since the 20th century. Yunus Emre's tomb is one of the unanswered areas among the studies focusing on him. There are 13 tomb sites believed to belong to Yunus Emre in Turkey. These are as follows: Afyon (Sandıklı), Aksaray (Tapdık village and Reşadiye village in Ortaköy district), Bursa (Yıldırım), Eskişehir (Mihalıççık), Erzurum (Palandöken), Isparta (Keçiborlu, Gönen and Güneykent), Karaman (Center), Konya (Doğanhisar), Manisa (Kula) and Ordu (Ünye). Each of these tombs is believed to belong to Yunus Emre by the local people in each of these places. The ownership of tomb sites often leads to controversy among these cities. In this article, the unanswered question, discussed for nearly one hundred years, "Where is Yunus Emre's real tomb?" is put aside, and the question "What is the role of these burial sites that are believed to belong to Yunus Emre in cultural transmission?" is raised. First of all, depending on the fieldwork carried out at Yunus Emre's tombs in 2017-2019, information is presented about the current status of the burial sites and their cultural productions. In line with the data obtained from the field study, how the cultural memory of Yunus Emre is kept alive in these places and the role of these tombs in the transfer of culture have been discussed. Accordingly, it is seen that the cultural transmission in Yunus Emre's tombs took place in the dimensions of narrative, ritual and space. The widespread existence of Yunus Emre in narrative environments of oral culture causes verbal memory to need a space to protect itself. It is determined that the places that appear in the form of attribution of tombs function as memory spaces and provide the appropriate environment for forming narratives and rituals. It is seen that each place fulfils the function of keeping the cultural memory of Yunus Emre alive and transmitting it from generation to generation, with its unique narratives, visiting rituals and practices on commemoration days in accordance with its geographical location and conditions. While Yunus Emre's production in written culture is protected by writing, its production in oral culture is also preserved, kept alive and transmitted in the tomb sites attributed to him and owned by the people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this study, it is given all maximal hyponormal extensions of first-order with smooth operator coefficients in Hilbert valued function space on a finite interval. These extention is by means of boundary values.Also, the structure of the spectrum of the maximal hyponormal extensions is investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this current study, set-valued optimization problem is considered. There are some criteria to obtain solutions of this set-valued optimization problem. The two most commonly used criteria are set and vector approaches in the literature. In this work, we investigated the solutions of set-valued optimization problems with respect to set approach. Many methods such as scalarization, vectorization and directional derivative are used to find the optimality conditions of set-valued optimization problems with respect to set approach. Apart from these methods, we used embedding function to obtain optimality conditions in this study. An embedding space is used in order to obtain optimality conditions by using embedding function. Some properties of this space and embedding function are studied. Moreover, an example is given to understand more better of the study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]