Miniaturk'ün alan kullanım yönünden değerlendirilmesi

The miniature parks in which the small scaled miniature structures or settlement fields exhibited are multi purpose open fields which serve for educational, instructional and recreative purposes. However miniature parks have not yet been classified among the open fields. Miniaturk which was founded in 2003 in Istanbul / Turkey has been at Sutluce quarter of the Golden Horn, exhibits the small sized miniature structures. In this study, Miniaturk has been examined both as a city park and as coast park concerning the criterias for the usage of open and green fields. All related literature has been examined and the other international samples have been evaluated. For the research concerning the planning, technical and aesthetical problems several observations and measurements had been made along with a semi standard survey which was applied to randomly chosen 300 people who visited the park on several dates. The survey outcomes and the visitor profiles have been examined and evaluated on percent scale and the visitor profiles and the problems encountered had been compared and analyzed correlationwise. The data obtained exists on the outcome chapter as tables. Finally; the problems encountered had been discussed both as a planner and a user point of view and alternative solutions had been presented. Key Words: Miniaturk, Land Use, Golden Horn, Open and Green Areas, Coast.