TY  - JOUR
TI  - Recent “Nation Gardens” and Historical Development of Public Green Spaces in Turkey
AB  - Focusing on contemporary Turkey’s “nation gardens” and the state and governmental policies to build them, this studyinvestigated the development processes and design features of these public green spaces with respect to those frompast eras of Turkey (extending to Ottoman and pre-Ottoman history) and the development of public green spaces as thestate’s symbolic and spatial tools. The study relied on secondary sources about public green spaces from past eras ofTurkey and also on the review of online news about “nation gardens” initiated after President Erdoğan’s announcementin May 2018. Our findings suggested that public green spaces in Turkey have played an important role in displaying thestate’s power nationally and internationally as well as to transfer the state’s ideologies to people and thus, to buildnew identities of ‘citizens.’ Interestingly, in sharing these intentions of past policies for public green spaces, the recentintroduction of nation gardens differs from those in the 19th and 20th century. Without any emphasis on modernizationgoals in the western-style, recent official talks described nation gardens as a way to raise Turkey and the government’sreputation both nationally and internationally, while also referring to past eras but with other characteristics as the sourceof “traditions” extending to today.
AU  - ŞENOL, FATMA
AU  - Kastas Uzun, Ipek
DO  - 10.26650/artsanat.2020.14.0009
PY  - 2020
JO  - Art-Sanat Dergisi
VL  - 7
IS  - 14
SN  - 2148-3582
SP  - 211
EP  - 240
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/383071
ER  -