Evaluation of street furniture according to basic design principles

All people need to connect and communicate with their surrounding environment and other people, to be able to perform social activities in safe, trustable and balanced manners. Such circumstances can be achieved through satisfying urban planning that aim at creating an aesthetic city. Aesthetic is one of more importance nowadays, therefore, using urban furniture designing to create a more beautiful face for cities is given a top priority. Regarded as the items, creating urban comfort and urban aesthetics, being the meaning and joy of the urban life; urban furniture contributes to the social life and should be organized considering socially, culturally, psychologically, economically, ergonomıcally by reckoning the differences of the culture and the human being's needs living on these cities. It is important to create a more comfortable and livable environment with proper planning, design and application in the urban environment. Presence of urban aesthetic and urban beautification elements are crucial for urban environment quality. Street furnitures have become importance with the increase of aesthetic concern in urban images. Considering the fact that understanding of aesthetics and its constituent principles in the design of urban environments-Urban Design- and its constituent elements-Street Furniture- is extremely important issue. Designers and relevant disciplines must be careful to observe all these principles throughout the designing process. Reviewing the aesthetic principles and their relationship with urban furniture is the main goal in this project.