Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Istanbul Gedik University International Conference on Energy and Sustainable Built Environment, İstanbul, Türkiye, 19 - 20 Haziran 2019, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
An Investigation on Safety in the Context of Urban Sustainability: Dead Ends
Dead end streets have been created for purposes such
as privacy and war strategy which planned as a trap for enemies in
traditional cities. These streets are closed to interaction due to their
plan typology. The neighborhood culture continued as a result of
being closed to interaction. The dead-end streets were evaluated for
safe, social interaction places.
On the other hand, it has been criticized in terms of the lack of
security and preventing accessibility due to the high level of privacy,
low circulation and lack of vitality in the evening.
The aim of this study is to investigate the concept of security by
examining the streets in terms of urban and social sustainability and
to investigate to whether the fact that a street is a dead end is
sufficient to describe it as safe.
In this study, dead ends, safety and urban sustainability concepts
were examined in the first stage.
As a second stage, selecting study areas was mentioned. The rate
of crime in dead end streets has been evaluated by two different
research methods: Space Syntax and crime map investigations. The
choice rate of the dead end streets was tested by using Space Syntax
method which evaluates the urban spaces by taking social, economic
and perceptual factors into consideration. In addition, in order to test
crime rates and crime types in different areas, a crime map was used
as a manipulation and processing of spatially referenced crime data
to be visually shown in an output that provides information to a
particular user. Also,the leading crime and postcode data research
and analysis platform were benefited in order to examine
demographic structure and total crime amount. The data obtained
were analyzed.
In the third stage analyzes were evaluatied. As a result, it can be
concluded that a street is a dead end is not sufficient to describe it as
safe and that other parameters have also been found to be effective in
defining dead end streets as safe.
Keywords—sustainability, dead ends, crime, security, blind alley.