EVALUATING EFFECTS OF AN URBAN REGENERATION: THE CASE OF ESPARK

Abstract
Aim: This research aims to present a study on the evaluation of the transformation of cities in different dimensions of urban design. The most important contribution of the research is to reveal the change that an idle factory area, which has been left out of use, has built up after a new project has been built in the city. It is very important that the old industrial areas in the idle state remaining in the city centers can become a new identity item from the socio-cultural, economic and physical aspects in order to restore and revitalize the city and to protect its place in the memory of the city. At this point, it is emphasized that the urban transformation projects are evaluated with respect to the dimensions of urban design in order to produce projects that retain the identity and past traces. Method: The study consisted of two steps; literature and field research. Through the literature review, theories about the dimensions of urban design have been synthesized from different sources. The morphological, perceptual, social, visual, functional and temporal dimensions of urban design were evaluated from a holistic viewpoint in order to examine the information process obtained from this synthesis and the change after the transformation. Indicators identified in these evaluations; Before and after the transformation, the plan studies were evaluated with the questionnaire survey conducted with the users of Espark and data obtained from the field survey, Eskisehir Metropolitan and Tepeba