@article{2017,title={TRANSFORMATION OF THE “ PUBLIC SPACE” IN THE PROCESS OF SOCIAL CHANGE},abstractNode={Public spaces were places that were formed by a developing design process that social experience and social experiences formed, and which were qualified according to time and usage. Recently, with the rapid increase of public and private sector as well as the interest of different social groups, important transformations both in physical and social sense have started to take place in the cities. The reason for these transformations is; the most important means of investment for global capital is urban spaces. These transformations concentrate especially on the creation of spaces where production and consumption operate mutually. In the process of transformation, the general appearance of the cities is changing and the public spaces and residential areas produced are different from the places that were produced 20-30 years ago. The meaning and function of the public space in cities that are transformed by this change also changes and the basic principles of planning in cities are weakened accordingly. In this process of change and transformation, there is not only a spatial change in the physical sense but also a significant change in the social context with the transformation of the space.Because public space is not just a "place" of structures. It is also a social-cultural phenomenon in which social events take place and shape the relationship between people and the environment.Therefore, social-cultural changes are also taking place in the urban scale in relation to the transformation of the public space, which is an important influence on human and social behavior. In this study, it was aimed to define the concept of public space and public space, to explain the changes of concepts in the historical process, to reveal the basic features of the public space-public space in cities in this frame and the increasingly deepening transformation.},author={Duygu AKYOL-- Abdullah ÇİĞDEM - Tuğba DÜZENLİ},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}