coast line obstruction

this map indicates the coast line freedom of public usage from inonu stadium to ortakoy. the red areas are the only spaces that the public is allowed to use the coast and the blue coast line is unfortunately obstructed to the public usage by the commercial, historical and official institutions like hotels, palaces, universities and government places.

it is hard to perceive that in istanbul, sadly the most central coast lines' destiny is like this.

mustafa.

surveillance map

This map is an attempt to visualize a pedestrians monitorability on Halaskargazi and Cumhuriyet Avenues.
As we all know, there are lots of surveillance cameras around the city, monitoring the public space 24 hours a day, 7 days a week... The graphic shows the proportions of distances, where someone can sit on a computer and watch someone else walking on the street, through "mobile electronic system integration" web site.
In this example i chose my daily route between home, school and work.

Compound to Compound

Maslak is a prime example of the new global development that is shaping many of the world’s cities.
Here a new housing development (Mashattan) is walled off from the rest of the city. The wealthy residents live in 9 identical towers and have their own private world complete with shops and recreational facilities.
They must use their cars to go anywhere. Many of the streets in the area don't even have sidewalks, even though they were recently built.
From the housing compound the residents leave thru a guarded entrance and enter walled in streets. These cars enter endless highways and pull into a gated office complex.
The public space is walled off and the spaces that people should be meeting and interacting are now reserved for cars. Public space is secondary and non-existent. The use of guarded entrance shows that the public space is less desirable and perhaps dangerous, when compared to the friendly confines of the various complexes.
A vicious cycle: The public spaces are neglected in favor of pristine private worlds. This neglect causes the public spaces to lose their appeal and people’s desire to be there. The lack of life gives a feeling of danger and people no longer want to be in the spaces. They continue to wall themselves in more and more in every aspect of their lives (work, living, playing, etc.) until the only time people use public space in these new cities is for transport between compounds.

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Human Obstructions to Public Walkways

I chose to map the human obstructions along my walk at three times during the day. These obstructions include all of the various street vendors and people who intrude on the public sidewalks. In my mapping I mark the various spots that these vendors set up shop throughout the course of the day. Their use of the public sidewalk causes mini traffic jams amongst the pedestrians walking and causes what could be a direct path from point A-B to become a winding journey in, around, through, and over these various street salespeople.

-William Trakas

tophane + disconnection from the bosphorus

this mapping of tophane shows the connection (or disconnection) between the public space and the bosphorus. as the sections to the right demonstrate, there is rarely a moment when the public is granted access to the view and proximity along the banks of the river.

nonaccessible urban area (Kadıkoy)

nonaccessible urban area in Kadıköy

Most of the old urban neighbourhoods of İstanbul happen to have one thing in common: They are all urban blocks with courtyards just like the ones in most European cities. But they differ from the most similar structured cities of Europe by one specific point: almost all are nonaccessible to public use.

The aim of this particular remapping task is to present these nonaccesible urban areas of İstanbul which eliminate the possibility of a more diverse use of the built environment and its surroundings.

The route I have taken for the previous remapping task was to point out the city lights at night and their layout. That route is also shown in this map too in order to underline the fact that the night lights within these non-accessible areas cannot be mapped as they do not even mean much as long as these areas are not in public use.

interruptions of pedestrian access (instances of obstruction)