CHANGING INTERPRETATIONS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE MODERNIZATION OF TURKEY

This study aims to comprehend the multi-layered relationships between public space and private space, their transformation and implications on architecture and urban design. Public and private cover different grounds of everyday life, from the privacy of houses to the publicity of streets and neighborhood. Socio-cultural, economic and political factors which have triggered the shift in the statuses of public and private have had impacts in both architectural and urban design at a variety of scales. The thesis will investigate housing architecture with its position in creating private, public and in-between spaces in the context of disputed space relationships.

Keywords: public space, private space, in-between, boundary, housing, neighborhood.