Changes in Spatial Practices Following a Shopping and Life Center: The Case of İsfanbul

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Year: 2020 Vol: 2 Number: 1

Abstract

Shopping centers, which are one of the locales occupying the greatest areas in cities in recent years, have been quite impactful on the spatial practices of city residents. This situation has also brought together discussions on shopping centers from many perspectives. This study aims at understanding the changes in the daily urban spatialusage practices of the city residents living in the region following the opening of İsfanbul, which has the quality of being a shopping center distinct from many others through its entertainment and living-complex characteristics, aside from being an open-street concept. The study, which uses qualitative research techniques, also benefits from visual techniques. As a result, İsfanbul is understood to have made significant changes in the urban practices of these city residents. The main topics of discussion in this study are how the locale’s decisiveness in urban life is understood and how the social meaning of shopping centers, which are one of today’s important topics of debate, is questioned.

Keywords
İsfanbul, spatial practices, urban practices, shopping centers, life centers, theme parks

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