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In modern times, park gardens and green areas are seen as one of the most important leisure time activities. At the same time, parks that are open spaces for common use within the city are indispensable places for the individual in terms of interaction and socialization. However, it has been seen that there is not enough research on park gardens and green areas in Turkey or in other countries. The purpose of this study is to reveal the factors that affect the motivation to go to park gardens and green areas. In order to accomplish this aim, it was applied a survey of 204 individuals selected with easy sampling method. As a result of the research, it is seen that there are four factors: discharge, personal development, quality life and economic situation and sports activities. Looking at the average of the factors it was determined that discharging has the highest average. This is followed by sports activities and personal development. However, the quality of life and the economic situation are found to have the lowest average.
European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science
EVALUATION OF MERSIN PROVINCE TOURISM POTENTIAL BY CONTENT ANALYSIS2017 •
The aim of this research is to offer suggestions for the work to be done regarding the development of the situation and potential of Mersin tourism. In this context, the opinions about the works that can be done for the current situation and development of Mersin tourism were asked and evaluated by 8 people, including public institution directors, academicians and private sector employees. In this study, semi-structured interview technique that is one of the qualitative research methods was used. In our study, the interview form prepared as a data collection tool has been revealed due to the opinions of the experts about the subject. As a result, the form consists of 8 questions and the first question that we have prepared determine the demographics features of the participants, while the other 7 questions are related to the feasibility of Mersin tourism regarding the current situation and potential of it. At the end of the study, strengths and weaknesses of Mersin tourism have been revealed. In addition, it is another contribution to the field of the study that reveals potential studies that can be done about Mersin tourism. It is believed that as a result of this study, the thoughts and suggestions have been revealed will be light and guide to other studies to be done in the field.
Commoning the City: Empirical Perspectives on Urban Ecology
From Graveyards to the "People’s Gardens"; the Making of Public Leisure Space in Istanbul2020 •
This article focuses on the history of recreational sites in the Taksim area, from their use in the late nineteenth century through their transformation over time. It argues for the importance of preserving historic recreation sites that carry significance for urban residents as spaces where individual and collective social histories have played out. The site that is now termed Taksim Square and Gezi Park has, and continues to be, a charged site of protest where power struggles have taken place between individuals, communities and municipal powers. Most recently, in 2013, this struggle revolved around preserving the square and the park as a public space. While it is important to preserve the park and square, it is also important to lend voice to the various histories that lie buried within this site. Turkey’s dominant political leadership not only employs a neo-Ottoman aesthetic in the neo-liberal development plan for Turkey’s major cities, but it is also resurrecting symbols that represent the late-Ottoman project of modernity. This study articulates a counter-narrative to a selective preservation of late-Ottoman history to ask if and how the people’s gardens truly served the “public benefit” in the past, which publics they served, and how various communities exerted effort to acquire access to and visibility within these spaces.
International Symposium of Advancements in Tourism, Recreation and Sport Sciences - Book of Abstracts, p. 41, ISBN 978-605-81246-0-8
Points of View Landscaping Experiences Approaches_Abstract.pdf2018 •
The purpose is to analyze and confirm the desire to reinterpret local fragments by reaching a "plurality of experiences and landscapes of living" (Lanzani, 2009), that extend beyond the few rigid models of the past, varying more and more the multiple points of view from which the observer chooses to position himself, directly and indirectly, in the digital age we experience. It becomes necessary to introduce a fundamental concept such as the creation of Landscape (Magnaghi, 2010) already discussed and debated in reference to the combination of "constructed or built" and "green and free spaces" (Gambino, 1989). The Landscape is no longer subdivided into an obsolete territorialization and sectorization that refers, to name a few, to rural areas, urban, suburban-residential, post-industrial (Lanzani, 2009) as much as one, from time to time different, land art that make recognizable and as essential as those landmarks of a landscape so reconstructed and planned, which is beautiful to see but especially to live and participate, referring to its different "self-sustainability" (Magnaghi, 2010). With Landscape we mean "an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors" (European Landscape Convention, Chapter 1, Art 1). Thus, the thought seems to assert that a Landscape does not exist, except through the eyes of those who benefit from it. In this form, we can speak of city-territory/city-landscape as we refer to an internet network, labyrinthine, widespread and without centers and outskirts (Zagari, 2013), but which is subject to a landscaping as "intelligent space, geographical certification of successful social practices" (Turco, 2017). It is extremely similar to the concept of "infinite city" (Bonomi, Abruzzese, 2004) which inevitably leads to the identification of the "Third Landscape" (Clément, 2014) finally recognized and valued in a context of reappropriation of places. Keywords— shaping, land art, landmarks, point of view
International Symposium of Advancements in Tourism, Recreation and Sport Sciences - Book of Abstracts, p. 29, ISBN 978-605-81246-0-8
"Tourism and Counterterrorism in Russia: the case of Kurorti Severnovo Kavkaza", International Symposium of Advancements in Tourism, Recreation and Sports Sciences - Book of Abstracts, p. 29, ISBN 978-605-81246-0-82018 •
The North Caucasus is a Southern Russian region affected by terrorism and jihadist propaganda and considered the most unstable, underdeveloped and unsafe area in the Russian Federation. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the North Caucasus has experienced ethnic conflicts, militancy, the rise of radicalism, terrorist attacks, corruption and high unemployment rate. With the aim of contrasting the socioeconomic problems and the recruitment process among the ranks of local militant groups (Imarat Kavkaz) and international terrorist organisations (al-Qaeda and the Islamic State), the Kremlin started a strategy focused on tourism development. This paper wants to study the Russian policy of contrasting terrorism and improving socioeconomic conditions through the analysis of the Kurorti Severnovo Kavkazka (North Caucasus Resorts), a project whose goal is to realise regional tourist clusters to attract FDIs and create more than 31,000 new jobs. In this research, the author will assess the Russian tourism strategy on regional level evaluating at the same time the impact of terrorism and local militancy on the regional tourism development and the effects of the Kurorti Severnovo Kavkaza project in ethnic conflicts management and counterterrorism activities.
2013 •
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