Empowering the community through participation and action in historic neighbourhood conservation planning
This paper presents an attempt to initiate community empowerment within the participatory neighbourhood upgrading context of the Şengül Hammam Neighbourhood (İstiklal). We adopted the Participatory Action Research methodology, which aims to generate knowledge meaningful for the community towards upg...
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| description | This paper presents an attempt to initiate community empowerment within the participatory neighbourhood upgrading context of the Şengül Hammam Neighbourhood (İstiklal). We adopted the Participatory Action Research methodology, which aims to generate knowledge meaningful for the community towards upgrading and revitalizing the neighbourhood. Respectively, a series of workshops, focus groups, and community activities were implemented in parallel processes with different neighbourhood groups. In order to change the situation in the neighbourhood, the inquiry began by mobilizing neighbourhood stakeholders and planning the future with primary school children. Later, this gained the active support of parents, women, the municipality, local leaders, and civil associations, and led them to take collective action over garbage collection, cleaning up the neighbourhood and building a playground-park. The mayor at the time of the research showed interest in İstiklal but did not or could not give any financial or political support to upgrade the physical setting as a whole. The lack of support from the municipality in that regard and the neighbourhood being left to its own destiny caused a gradual dilapidation and loss of historic and cultural values. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5368ab96a21a4e999f7c04e07a243f522022-12-22T00:08:14ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Frontiers of Architectural Research2095-26352022-06-01113492508Empowering the community through participation and action in historic neighbourhood conservation planningAnlı Ataöv0Z. Ezgi Haliloğlu Kahraman1Sevin Osmay2City and Regional Planning, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, TurkeyCity and Regional Planning, Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey; Corresponding author.City and Regional Planning, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, TurkeyThis paper presents an attempt to initiate community empowerment within the participatory neighbourhood upgrading context of the Şengül Hammam Neighbourhood (İstiklal). We adopted the Participatory Action Research methodology, which aims to generate knowledge meaningful for the community towards upgrading and revitalizing the neighbourhood. Respectively, a series of workshops, focus groups, and community activities were implemented in parallel processes with different neighbourhood groups. In order to change the situation in the neighbourhood, the inquiry began by mobilizing neighbourhood stakeholders and planning the future with primary school children. Later, this gained the active support of parents, women, the municipality, local leaders, and civil associations, and led them to take collective action over garbage collection, cleaning up the neighbourhood and building a playground-park. The mayor at the time of the research showed interest in İstiklal but did not or could not give any financial or political support to upgrade the physical setting as a whole. The lack of support from the municipality in that regard and the neighbourhood being left to its own destiny caused a gradual dilapidation and loss of historic and cultural values.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095263521000960ParticipationEmpowermentNeighbourhood revitalizationConversation planningParticipatory action research |
| spellingShingle | Anlı Ataöv Z. Ezgi Haliloğlu Kahraman Sevin Osmay Empowering the community through participation and action in historic neighbourhood conservation planning Frontiers of Architectural Research Participation Empowerment Neighbourhood revitalization Conversation planning Participatory action research |
| title | Empowering the community through participation and action in historic neighbourhood conservation planning |
| title_full | Empowering the community through participation and action in historic neighbourhood conservation planning |
| title_fullStr | Empowering the community through participation and action in historic neighbourhood conservation planning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Empowering the community through participation and action in historic neighbourhood conservation planning |
| title_short | Empowering the community through participation and action in historic neighbourhood conservation planning |
| title_sort | empowering the community through participation and action in historic neighbourhood conservation planning |
| topic | Participation Empowerment Neighbourhood revitalization Conversation planning Participatory action research |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095263521000960 |
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