University Campus as a Public Space of the City Case Study: Eastern Mediterranean University Campus

On one hand, suburbanization, urbanization, and technology are the phenomenon of 21th century that influence on behavior of public spaces, on the other hand, knowledge society, knowledge economy, and university campus are the main components of society in 21th century, so development of relationship between university campus and the city can affect positively behavior of public spaces that physical and social relationships between university campus and the city are the main focus of this research. According to focus of this research, the aim is to understand how campus environment can act as a public space of the city and Famagusta City and Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU Campus) are chosen as Case studies of this research. Famagusta city is divided to four districts that are: Walled city, Maraş, Asaği Maraş, and new quarter devlepment. EMU campus is locaed in new quarter of the city that it affects development of the city toward itslef and today, Famagusta city face with lack of good quality of public open spaces, which cause that the level of livability of the city decrease. The physical and soical relation ships of EMU campus with Famagusta city is in low level, so the mian research quesions are “How can EMU campus act as a public space of Famagusta city?” and “What should be design criteria for turning EMU campus into a public space of the city, without disturbing its privacy?” for answering these research questions, this research is divided to theoritical framework and case study research. In theoritical framework, type of campuses, physical and soical relationships of university campus with the city, recent trends of universiyt campuses, type of public open spaces, and physical and function characteristics of public open spaces are explored and in case study research, the methodology that are chosen are qualitative and quantitative surveys. Qualitative surveys includes litriture survey, questionniare, participation observation, and documantary and evaluation of these data are quantitative and qualitative method. Finally, this research answer to research questions and propose general guildines for University campuses in general, and general guildines for EMU Campus in specific. Key Words: University Campus, Public Place, Public Open Space, EMU Campus, Famagusta.