We are together again with a tiring and full-fledged page. Our 36th edition coincided with December and the birth of the December issue of academic journalism is another stress and painful. This time next year, we will publish our 40th edition, and we will start our editorial writing  saying 41 times of Mashallah.

As time goes by, it’s  like ‘a passengers on the road ’ our magazine continues the development process.Each number adds new field editors. In this issue, with a new participating of our field editors, Prof.Dr. Tuğba KİPER, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Candan KUŞ ŞAHİN, MD Betsy SULLAM HALFON, Oylum GÖKKURT BAKI our broadcasting table has increased to 33 branch editors.

From this issue, we prepared the Main Branch editorship (Main science / Main arts branch)and field editorship (Science / Art Branch) as preparation for 2019. Almost with the power of knowledge, we formed the upper class academy of the city.

Dear Authors:

Before we  take the referee process, in principle, each article (sent within the period of publication) ,  passing through the Itenticate program.

However, in the following processes, articles submitted without using our article template, will be left to the usual flow , if the articles are created according to the template we would like to state that the followed  status will be given priority . As of 2019, our journal will start to give DOI.

Our aim is to make our Kent Academy magazine a source of pride for our country in the scientific community, and  within a few years,  to become the focus of  interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary studies of the  world science environment , via taking part of  indexes such as SCI, SSCI, ISI.

The Bleeding Wounds of Our Cities: The Problem of Urban Regeneration and Unbalanced Horizontal Stitching Trends in Metropolitan Areas

As it is known, cities that absorbed the population of the 1960s  rural areas have formed the cities where human masses live in the name of Megapol due to unplanned irregular structures without infrastructure. After the 1990s and especially in the 2000s, both in terms of infrastructure and superstructure, it has been forced to experience both the structure and the mentality revolution in the geography that has been transformed into such a chaos.

The places that have undergone urban change in terms of structure had to live the process of urbanization with a mentality. They learned that ,unstable  buildings would damage first  of all to themselves , If  they  stand, they should be positioned on the right and give way to fast passers (foreseeing that those have a right who want to go faster on the escalator are entitled), not leaving shoes in front of doors in apartment buildings.  Just as the educators did the training by learning new things themselves, our cities became cities learning with their structures and people.

Trend: From Engineering to Architecture, from Vertical to Horizontal

Today, the construction processes of the structures are technically practical and the structures of the automation system have started to be constructed and the engineering dimension of the structure has become known and predictable. The practicality and ease-of-the-step process of this dimension has led to detailed trends from engineering to architecture. Especially in the last 50 years, urban centers have been carrying a vertical upward trend, while yesterday’s suburbs and eaves have been caught in this verticalization wind.

Since the 1950s, suburbs have been subject to distorted construction, and since 2000, urban transformation has become inevitable, especially after the Gölcük and Sakarya earthquakes. Hereby, so to speak , for take advantage of , it has been influenced via uptrend at the city center. In other developing world cities, similar characteristics are observed for such regions and structures.

From the city center to suburban and satellite cities, the Metropolitan Region Renewal continued its upward trend and was under the centrifugal effect of growth as a result of dizzying developments in transportation and communication techniques and technologies.

The vertical tendency in the structures in these skidding areas was replaced by the new manor areas as they were replaced by the center. At this point, metropolitan cities, with the effect of reverse migration, merged with several metropolitan areas and turned into metropolitan areas. In the meantime, the next 100 years will be spent with the development and infrastructure of the mansion areas spread over suburban areas.

Yes, precious readers, again from this day to the future, we have put forward a horizon line although we use hand procedure though.

In the March 2019 issue of our journal, we will focus on Environmental Management and Policies.

In the June 2019 issue, we will also focus on the ZERO WASTE agenda as a detail of the environmental theme. In the hope of meeting the more beautiful and bright tomorrow,my dear.

Okumaya devam et →

 

 

Dr. Ahmet FİDAN

Yayın Kurulu Adına

Urban Design Must Have Macroform and Mission Concern

From the Editor

We’re together in our 34th publishing season with the opinions and ideas which will enlighten the next thousands of years with the support of previous cultural accumulation. With the motivation that we got from the expression; “instead of complaining about darkness, light a candle yourself” which is the key mission of our publishing life, we’re with you in this issue with the new and unique, valuable than each other academic studies.

In this issue, although we tried to put the Urban Design into the center of our agenda, we didn’t flinch from including different articles about areas and close areas.

We have same worries about our modern-day cities, not only for Turkish cities (Anatolian Cities), but also for world cities. Because, the rationalized by popularity and rantability facts like artificiality and shallowness in architecture, the monotonousness in urban functions, commercialization of art are becoming more specifically endorsed. In this sense, human beings are becoming numb all together with harmony in the depth of the cosmos in its own vicious cocoon. This structure is necessarily perceived as an almost nightmare by the people who has depth and understanding of civilization and art.

Technology and intense physical and social environment, gradually manages and directs the pleasure and value understanding of the presentation of the places. And most of the time, this cause the missionless urban designs and buildings. However, aside of missionless designs, urban administrators started to slowly notice the needs to the urban macroform of the cities where they live inside. We would wish that especially urban administrators and/or local administrators would be educated on macroform, aesthetics, and art. The fact that our expectations about this are just fantasy is a very upsetting reality for us.

The New Microsector in The World: Street Economy

The efforts of Osman SIRKECI who is one of associate editors of our journal, to place the new sector which overtold as street economy or micro entrepreneurship to the literature, and his scientific series of studies, conferences, workshops, and symposiums across the world about this topic make us happy for the added value to our scientific and cultural world.

All of the academic studies which are participant in all academic studies within the scope of Street Economy / Micro Entrepreneurship will be published in our journal primarily. Also within this scope, the manifestos from the GLOBAL STREET ECONOMY CONGRESS which scheduled to be held on 1/7 October 2018 in Malta will be published as “SPECIAL ISSUE” in our journal.

We’re calling the writers, readers, followers, and academes to attend this congress.

Next Issue and About Our Publishings

Our journal added to new indexes with this issue. New reviewers who are valuable than each other added to the referee pool of our journal in every issue. Because it’s a government institution, the server of the articles is http://www.dergipark.gov.tr/ instead ofwww.kentakademisi.com. We didn’t have any important problem about this since our last issue. Our referees and editors managed refereeing processes as well. All of our updates are continuing simultaneously from both www.kentakademisi.com and http://www.dergipark.gov.tr/.

• DOI Will Be Given to The Articles After September Issue

The articles in out September issue will be published with DOI because we’ve been carrying out every process from Dergipark since last two issues. The important thing that we expect from our writers to manage the processes rapidly while they’re registering to the system for the first time is that to create their profiles in the format of “Name and SURNAME” (Name with small letters, surname with capital letters), to use Turkish and English tabs together, to add their gsm numbers to the system absolutely.

• Our Agenda in The Next Issue: Transportation, City, and Communication Systems

In our September issue, the articles about transportation and communication systems Okumaya devam et →