Kentsel Mekanın Sosyallik Durumları Üzerine Biçim Odaklı Bir Bakış

The conditions of urban sociability, such as (a) increase in com- munication and interaction (b) easiness of mobility coordination and encounters (c) increase in users’ urban awareness and expe- riences are closely related to the forms that are shaped within physical conditions of urban environments. Considering the for- mational and integrative effects of materiality of urban space on generation of social forms, it is necessary to re-think the medi- ated relationship between urban space and textures of urban sociality in the contexts of changes brought to contemporary city life by aspatial forms of communication and social interactions. This article presents a perspective and a methodological start- ing point through putting the concept of form in the context of dynamic relationship between urban space and different stances of everyday life. In doing so, the ideas on everyday life and rhythm are engaged at various levels in this article to highlight the forms of complex and intricate relationships between materiality of urban space, its function and its use. Meanwhile, the main motiva- tion of the article is expand the usual definition of form within urban studies; and second, to develop a method for analyzing any given urban space simultaneously enables and constrains the constituents of its physical condition.