A Proposal For A Method For The Evaluatıon Of The Synthetıc, Formal and Perceptabılıty Level Of Publıc Spaces: Sultanahmet and Galata Square

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The Effect of Perceptibility Level of Public Spaces on Usage Preferences

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Since it is an important need for people to meet their individual and social needs in public spaces in urban life, it becomes important to examine and develop these spaces. The space syntax method, which is used to analyze the topological structure of the current state of the urban space, argues that the perceptibility level and usage preference potential of the urban space can be measured with numerical values ​​such as integration, connectivity, preference, intelligibility, and visibility by performing analyzes on the topological structure of the urban space. However, the advocates of the space syntax method do not take into account that the syntagmatic and formal structures of the urban space and the perceptual stimuli around it can affect the perceptibility level of the space and that this effect may be reflected in the usage preference value. In this study, in order to contribute to the data obtained by the spatial syntax method, the perceptibility level of the syntactic and formal structures of the current situation of the Sultanahmet and Galata Squares, which were determined as the study areas in order to test the model developed by using three methods within the scope of the research, was examined by the spatial syntax and visual salience method, and the syntactic and formal structures were analyzed. The level of perceptibility of the perceptual stimuli in and around and the level of influence of this level on the usage preference value were determined by analyzing the survey method.