Urban interiors: Arcades in Ankara memory, (1950-1980)

This research was conducted in the post-Republican period of the 20th century in Ankara. It is a study about arcades. The study takes 'place' is Ankara. Ankara is being studied includes the years 1950-1980 when deep-rooted changes in the socio-economic, cultural and political environment took place. Regarding this study, Ankara is at the center of ideological, social, bureaucratic, and political structuring that makes the new 'capital' ideal as the heart of the nation. In its scope, the study, which deals with the routines of the city, is structuring its area on the basis of everyday life practice. Yenişehir and urban spine 'Atatürk Boulevard', which defines a new 'face' in the desire to create a modern city, has created new spatialiaties of social mobility and commercial approaches in urban space. Thus, urban interiors, which are examples of thesis examinations, are the means of everyday life as an extension of urban space and reading tools of the period. Thesis subject studies are Kocabeyoğlu, Ülkealan, Zafer and Soysal Arcades. Through arcades, this research suggests an alternative reading to the monumental typologies which is publicly presented. In this manner it adresses directly to the 'urban perspective'. Thesis subject studies are Kocabeyoğlu, Ülkealan, Zafer and Soysal Arcades. In this context, the sample structure is a documentary between the social dimension and the past and the future. It is a structural analysis that constitutes building documentation with its technical dimension and aims to carry them to future generations. As of 1950, the concentration of the global nature of political, economic, capitalist organization influenced the model city proposition to the face and walls of Ankara. Thus, it brought about socio-economic transformation. As of the second half of the 1950s, Yenişehir supported the urban rotation of individual / collective daily life and played a key role in the formation of urban culture and western consumption patterns. The industrialization strategy for import substitution led to the change of the demographic characteristics of Ankara, which acquired the capital function, and the transformation of its daily habits. In this context, the renewed sense of state and the urban / public interior spaces in the formation of the social space describe as the viewer of transformation. Examples which are produced and examined within the thesis by 'place-specific' and 'place itself' are period representations. The method of research is a new model in the field. The mixed methodology that structured the source of the urban / public interior experience over the memory of 1950-1980 was evaluated in the qualitative data analysis method. The model's core is acquisition of transferring production and transfer of information to the future. Within the scope of original evaluation method and the mixed methodology, sample arcade typology studies and oral testimony are basis on the theoretical infrastructure of everyday life. Practices of everyday life are examined with the subtitles and theoretical background determined by the thesis writer. Thus, the periodic memory of Yenişehir was taken into consideration by its individual and collective dimension. The oral testimony itself has presented the cross section of social history that has not been quoted in the history of architecture and history, and has taken 'the memory of the ordinary' as a tool of periodical representation. Urban observation is a tool for carrying out the transmission of urban stories. Through the use of official history writing and alternative sources, the physical and semantic qualities of the arcades, which are enriching the urban life and which are part of the city, were evaluated and the daily life of Yenişehir and the urban user was examined. In conclusion, the main purpose of the study is to discuss the elements of memory, that is changing, transforming, and disappearing. In conclusion, the main purpose of the study is to discuss the elements of memory, that is changing, transforming, and disappearing. In addition, arcades and everyday routine were discussed by the potentiality to the urban environment. Key Words: Arcades, Ankara, Yenişehir, Urban / Public Interiors, Oral History, Collective Memory.