Ceyhun Burak Akgül, Ahu Sökmenoğlu Sohtorik

 
 
2020-2021 Fall
 
 

Image: Urban Bike Rental Station Performance Evaluation: the Case of Istanbul, Ali Yılmaz

Ekin Kılıç

This study aims to create a simulator that predicts how the population of Istanbul’s districts can change when the available railway systems are modified, by using data mining techniques. Created prediction tool is intended to be used by planners to optimize the amount of railways to be built; thus supporting the existing population with new infrastructure, yet controlling how much the city will grow in a certain amount of time.

Dilara Demiralp

What if giants of the city can behave as a magnet to transform the little ones? Giants and the little ones are differ in size. This difference brings along an unobservable interaction. In order to find out whether this interaction has transforming power, a data analytic research on Magnetic Giants has been conducted. Giants will appear as stadiums in this research. With a holistic approach, research has been deepened on how these giants can benefit as an urban use area.

Barış Terzi

This study, considering the increasing crime rates today, “Can urbanization have an increasing effect on this situation?” and “Could there be a relationship between urban elements and crime?” It was built on the basis of questions and aims to provide a basis for answering these questions.

Selen Çiçek

Urban decay is one of the chronicle problems in today’s modern cities. Resolving the issues about it and regaining to the urban life has always been challenging. Thus, this work aims to propose a data analytic method for both detecting and re-functioning the urban decay, according to the data mined from the exact location of the problematic zone; to be able to re-function the site according to the needs of people living down there, without allowing the situation to reoccur.

Gizem Fidan

This research aims to understand how data can be used to design public spaces that are suitable for protests. It uses three city squares as case studies which are being re-designesd with competitions organized by İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality; Taksim, Kadıköy, Bakırköy. By using RapidMiner and data on protest spaces of İstanbul, it tries to predict protest numbers of these areas if and when selected projects were implemented.

Eda Özgener Semerci

A coast, as a strong threshold in urban environment, a strong and sudden encounter with a vast natural element; transacts between urban form and water. The dynamics vary from laws and cultural understandings, as well as the mere physicality. The research; fundamentally a comparison study, emphasizes the artificial and natural physical features of seven coastal settings of seven different site-specific public from İstanbul; asserting that the physicality of the urban form is used as a material for spatial construction by the city dwellers. From that standpoint, the overall aim of the study is to propose a method for searching alike sites in other shores within comparable frames.

Ece Buldan

In this study, in the context of amenity migration from England to Fethiye will be read with the theoretical framework of place attachment conducted by the British community settled in Fethiye. In order to decipher the most important attributes, a Decision Tree and ANOVA Matrix will be applied to the survey results done with immigrants.

Tahsin Oğuz Koç

According to Human Development Index, Region Development Index can be analyzed too in terms of reading cities. Satellite images explains lots of data about the environment of a region. Buildings, green areas, roads, transportation system and public spaces shows that how kind of a region is that. On the other hand, while calculating the region development index in a city, some socio-economic data can be helpful to understand the relationship.

Ali Yılmaz

Many urban studies have revealed how surrounding land use affect bike sharing systems’ performance. However, especially metropolitan cities like Istanbul have distinct characters to generalize. This study focuses on how land use and built environment affects bike sharing stations performance in the case of Istanbul, a digitally growing city to get smarter. Methodology focuses on retrieving data from both IsBike API and Istanbul GIS dataset to process and visualize in QGIS and RapidMiner Studio.

Sarvin Eshaghi

The following research aims to raise the usage rate of Istanbul parks by healing them after figuring their attributes leading to being used or not, from social media. Hence, the project takes advantage of street views, written data, and images provided by virtual communities on web mapping services and city guides, data mining them with the help of RapidMiner to determine the association among the various attributes.

Sheida Shakeri

Istanbul has various public staircases to connect communities and provide access to amenities in neighborhoods. Theses stairs are essential assets not only for the city’s pedestrian network, but also as infrastructures that shape the identity of the city. Unfortunately, these stairs are taken for granted. Regarding this issue, we can benefit from Graffiti, that is an indispensable part of megacities, to convert these dull spaces into active, social ones, where people can have interactions.

Erenalp Saltık

Public transportation is affecting many areas, like rental prices. Studies are generally carried out under the title of spatial econometrics. Within the scope of this study, the effects in a large metropolis like Istanbul is examined through Kadıköy district. After selecting a certain number of buildings from each neighborhood and collecting their accessibility data to different types of public transportation, it is aimed to create a model that explores the relationships and makes future predictions.

Nurdan Akman

City squares are one of the most important images that reflect the character, identity and culture of a city. In this study, first of all, the characteristics that create city squares are determined. In the following step, the potential of the parking lot selected with data mining methods to become city squares were analyzed.

Hüseyin Kadıoğlu

The design of the staircase spaces directly affects the development of the physical and social environment. Well, do the streets with stairs have features that can establish these social relationships? What are these features? If we know these features, can we make the streets with stairs more attractive? What are the features that make the streets with stairs more attractive?

Selen Aksoy

The concept of public space has changed and transformed throughout history. In this study, it is accepted that the city produces its own publicity and the attributes of the city are determined through the space production trilogy of Henri Lefebvre. The publicity value produced by different locations in the city in daily life is combined with Henri Lefebvre’s concept of lived space. And this value has been tried to be classified by the naive Bayes method. The aim of the study is to reveal the rules created by the coexistence of the attributes of the city, to use these rules in urban research and to create a model that will produce publicity information on location in daily life.

Elif Alkılınç

In the study, it is aimed to create more pleasurable walking routes rather than the shortest routes we usually use today. In this context, 66 routes including the shortest and sightseeing routes in Istanbul were examined. Some descriptive analyzes were made by collecting the necessary data of these routes, route ratings were estimated with linear regression, and clustering analysis was performed to reveal the clustering of routes according to their characteristics.

Dilan Öner

This study aims to define the relationship between evaluations between instanta-neous environmental parameters (WGBT, relative humidity, wind speed, noise), urban characteristics (SVF, H / W ratio, building, instant city situation – sky, street, car, tree, people-) and subjective evaluations (comfort and satisfaction). In line with this goal, the following questions are sought;
• What is the relationship between environmental parameters and acous-tic, visual and thermal comfort?
• What is the relationship between acoustic, visual and thermal satisfac-tion and comfort?
• How is the combined effect of comfort conditions?
• Can urban comfort be predicted using environmental parameters and ur-ban characteristics?

Nur Sipahioğlu

The problem with walkability is that every study differs in the way they define walkability, and this subjectivity causes contradiction in science. This study aims to answer the question of what makes a street walkable by utilizing data mining methods. GIS and Google Street View based data are processed in Rapidminer with Mutual Information and Correlation matrices which help us figure out the relationship and dependences between different attributes.

Nisa Çelebi

In our daily life, we are exposed to many sounds while going somewhere or waiting somewhere. These voices gradually begin to form identity and character of the place they belong to. In the research, it was discussed whether sound sources in some squares in Istanbul have an effective role in determining the categories of these squares. In other words, the answer to the question of whether the identity of square can be determined with sound sources of that place was sought.

Deniz Tutucu

The place of public spaces in daily use in the city has become popular day by day. Along with this, shopping streets that are included in public spaces emerged in the city. Under this heading, the differences in the popularity of these streets are evaluated in terms of the number of urban equipments.