Otomobilin kentsel ve mimari mekandaki izi

This research focuses on how the automobile, which is experiencing the greatest evolution in its history, can affect the production of urban space and daily routines. The potential effects of smart cars, powered by electricity and transferred from human beings to artificial intelligence, on urban space and infrastructural elements that make up urban space are emphasized. In addition to the evolution of the automobile, discussions have been made on the possible effects of societies' tendencies towards new mobility trends on urban space. In this context, in the first part of the thesis, it is discussed how the automobile, which is one of the most important inventions of the industrial revolution, transforms the daily routines and overthrows the traditional city with its inclusion in daily life and the freedom it has given to human beings. The ideal and utopian cities of the modernists, who produced ideas about how the post-automobile city should be, are mentioned. In the second part, discussions about how electric and driverless vehicles can transform the production of urban space are continued through various speculative projects, current news and reports. In this context, the envisagements, project texts, videos and images made by the automobile industry and architects about the city of the future were examined. Based on the discussions made, original diagrams were produced and it was tried to provide a better examination of the subject. In addition, current newspaper news about the automobile industry and the reports published by various research companies contributed to the deepening of the subject.