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Analysis of the New Era in the Formation of Public Space



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Bülent Güneş

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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2026.06.003

Istanbul Yeni Yüzyıl University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Architecture, İstanbul 34010, Türkiye

II. The renovation of public spaces in urban areas, produced by the rapidly rising modernist understanding after the World War II, gained a different momentum especially after the 1970s. Since ancient times, it is seen that the identity of meeting and demonstration of public spaces in the urban area is gradually turning into different functions today. Urban areas continue to be the main phenomenon of today, with the new production and lifestyles created in the social space, as well as bringing everything around them together. With the modernist movement, public spaces, stripped of their traditional identity, have turned into circulation, demonstration and shopping functions in the process, while also becoming a transition area used by pedestrians and vehicles. In parallel with the digital transformation experienced with the evolution of the modernist movement into a new process at the end of the 1960s, global capitalism caught up with the process to overcome the economic crisis again. This process, which emerged after the 1970s and overflowed into the 21st century, has rapidly moved and spread from developed countries to globalizing cities in the increasing competition. In addition to the compression of time and space, the creation of flexible processes, pluralism, collage, fragmentation, and the post-modern climate, where popular culture production and commodity production are combined, has emerged. With the increasing power of the exchange value, it is possible to observe the change in public spaces, primarily in the shimmering order and the planned depth process. In the study, results are sought for the transformation of the meta-fetish character of the process to the public interest, together with the planning and design disciplines, by analyzing and synthesizing the variables on the basis of the relevant literature review and data.

Public, space, city, Change.

Bülent Güneş. (2026). Analysis of the New Era in the Formation of Public Space,  Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, June 2026, Vol. 20, No. 6,  227-231.