Evaluation of urban parks for visual landscape quality; sample of Topkapi Urban Park

In this master thesis; In this master thesis; In Topkapı Urban Park, it is aimed to identify the areas that are visually appealing. The main material of the thesis study is; 43 photographs of the Topkapı Urban Park located within the boundaries of Zeytinburnu District of Istanbul Province and the photo-questionnaire with these photographs were formed. The questionnaire was applied to two groups as observer and expert. The observer group is composed of the students of the Department of Landscape Architecture of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture of Namık Kemal University, while the expert group consists of the faculty members and lecturers and the Landscape Architects working within the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Directorate of Parks and Gardens. The same questionnaire was applied to both groups in order to determine whether there was a difference in the choice of space between the user group and the expert group. In the survey study, each photograph has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (5 highest, 4 high, 3 medium, 2 low and 1 lowest). in Likert scale in terms of parameters of naturalness, harmony, care, simplicity, excitement, order, confidence and landscape beauty. Based on the results of the analysis of the method used in the study, data that support the results of the studies which are statistically significant and have been made in the previous international literature have been obtained. As a result of the evaluation of research findings, naturalness, harmony, care, simplicity, excitement, order, trust and landscape beauty have been found to have a direct effect on location preferences. By combining spatial characteristics, it was concluded that it is possible to reveal space typologies.