With recent developments in information and communication technologies (ICT), it has become possible to shop for products that require “same day delivery”. Individuals can access food products suitable for instant consumption at any time of the day with online supermarket applications, without changing their physical environment. It has been seen that the sociodemographic characteristics of individuals, their tendency to use the internet, and the urban factors in the environment they live in, are the main reasons for choosing online shopping. In the study, the relationship between the online supermarket shopping preferences of individuals in the district of Çankaya, and the location and accessibility of retail markets, was investigated. Findings were obtained by analyzing online survey data and spatial data. The chi-square test, a descriptive statistics test, was applied to the data obtained by the questionnaire. As a result of the analysis, it was determined which variables were statistically significantly when correlated to online grocery shopping. Service areas were created for pedestrians and vehicles by using the market locations in the district. Accessibility to markets was analyzed with the help of slope and transportation networks in the district. At the end of the study, it was concluded from the survey data that there is a statistically significant relationship between online grocery shopping preferences, the gender of the participants, their years of residence in their neighborhoods, their difficulties in accessing markets and carrying packages, and curfews. As a result of the spatial analyzes within the scope of market service areas and accessibility, it has been determined that there are no markets that individuals can reach by walking in Ahlatlıbel, Alacaatlı, Beytepe, Konutkent and Koru neighborhoods, where residential areas are located in the southwest direction of the district of Çankaya. It has been determined that some of the locations of the markets located in Çayyolu, Dodurga, Hilal, Keklikpınarı, Kırkkonaklar and Yaşamkent neighborhoods in the district have a slope of 20 to 35 percent.

Urban pollution, which reduces the quality of life of residents and poses a vital threat to human health, can be reduced by effective city planning. Pollution due to heavy metals is increasing in today’s cities, and these heavy metals are of particular concern because as they do not naturally decompose on earth, they can bioaccumulate in the human body and cause serious diseases. It is, however, possible to reduce exposure to pollutants through making spatial decisions. The research aims to determine the variation of concentrations of Mn by location, which is greatly affected by the poor air quality caused by traffic density. Within the scope of the study, the following species were analyzed: Robinia pseudoacacia, Platanus orientalis, Acer negundo, Fraxinus excelsior, Ailanthus altissima, Aesculus hippocastanum, and Tilia tomentosa. Samples were taken from Ulus, the traditional center of the political capital of Ankara, and Kızılay, its modern center. Although the two areas of research are close to each other, the traffic density had increased due to the current planning decisions in Kızılay, while Ulus was chosen as a region with relatively low vehicle density due to its historical structure. It was found that four wood species have higher values in their leaves and wood, and five wood species have higher values in their bark in the Kızılay region, as compared to Ulus. This demonstrates that motor vehicles have a significant effect in Kızılay. In addition, the values of the leaves and bark of the same wood are higher in Kızılay than Ulus. It has therefore been determined that A.negundo and F. excelsior are suitable species for use in urban planting design to monitor the concentrations of heavy elements in the air.

With a consideration of the key concepts of housing, landscape, and roads, this study discusses a number of housing areas in Ankara that are planned, designed, and add value to the city. The intention of the study is to better understand integrated design decisions on housing, landscape and roads, by examining the original drawings and conceptual proposals of selected project designers. The research takes an analytical reading of a period starting from the Early Republican area, when the road was conceptualized as the public space of the house, to the current state where the interface between the housing area and the road is mostly obstructed. Providing a consideration of three historical periods, the article mainly focuses on Demirtaş Kamçıl and Rahmi Bediz’s Israel houses, Fatin Uran’s İlbank blocks, and Altuğ-Behruz Çinici’s Sincan Elvanköy mass housing complex projects. It intends to deduce the common ground of these projects with different contexts, scales, and spatial organizations in order to lay the necessary knowledge ground for alternative design and planning approaches in the constitution of the housing-landscape-road relationship, which appear to be widely lost today. Appear to be widely lost today.

The network of roads, settlements and the distribution of the tumuli that constitute the unique cultural landscape of Central Anatolian are primary indicators of the determinacy of natural topography and water elements, as well as the spatial continuities that have been enduring since Antiquity. Ankara Tumuli can be defined within this framework as elements of a cultural landscape that has regional expanse. To properly evaluate the significance of the Ankara Tumuli visible in the city, they must not be viewed as merely isolated structures, but with careful consideration of their entire urban and regional context. Ankara Tumuli have been researched and documented since the end of the 19th century, with about twenty tumuli to the west of the city center being studied and excavated during the Republican era. Due to increasing urbanization after the 1950s, increasing numbers of tumuli in urban areas were either destroyed, or became forgotten as they lost their primary visual characteristics. Nevertheless, research conducted since the 2010s has used historical photographs and maps to recreate the original appearances of the tumuli, while documentary evidence has enabled previously unknown tumuli to be located. This study explores how Ankara tumuli were transformed from the 1930s due to urban development. This is the period within which, along with other environmental elements, the tumuli exhibited original formal features that can be seen and contribute to the today’s urban spatial structures. The theoretical framework presented by the current landscape and conservation discourses; and exemplary cases of preserved tumulus areas; were therefore investigated in this context. Departing from the extracts, the transformation of tumulustopography- urbanscape relations was evaluated through a proposed urban experience route among the still visible Western Tumuli.

Representing the starting point of the modernization efforts of the Ottoman Empire, the Tanzimat Edict of the 18th century decreed that a reform modeled on Europe would become an official state policy, thus initiating a period that reshaped the structure and social fabric of the Empire. The Tanzimat Edict transformed the institutional structure in terms of legal practices, introducing a land order, city administration and construction practice in the cities and the architecture. In the Tanzimat Period, Ankara was one of the main cities where the changes in the administration of the Empire were reflected. In this context, the aim of this study is as follows: to analyze the urban fabric of Ankara related to the process that started with the Tanzimat Edict, in line with the modernization of the Ottoman Empire. This period saw transformation in many areas within spatial structures, as well as in the central administration at the upper level (political, social and economic). Changes at the local context can be seen from the maps of 1839 and 1924. These identify the processes that have instigated these changes and improvements and reveal the relationship of these processes with the Tanzimat reforms. The research concludes that the Tanzimat era practices carried out in Ankara, unlike the structural changes experienced in Istanbul and port cities, did not create major transformations, but actually created only gradual changes in the city. However, it is observed that these modernization initiatives in Ankara brought about, especially in bureaucratic and administrative organizations, social, political and cultural changes, and that these changes paved the way for the Republican Period. There is therefore no doubt that the Tanzimat era is an important time period in the story of changes in the urban fabric of the city.

Collective memory is a way of remembering that makes it possible for society or groups to have a common identity by bridging the past and the future. Pierre Bourdieu’s practical theory also allows discussion of the continuity of collective memory in the context of the structure-action relationship. In this context, the aim of the study is to reveal that social agents are effective in the reproduction of memory. This is done by associating the construction of collective memory with Pierre Bourdieu’s conceptualization of space, habitus and capital in the sample of the city of Ankara, which represents the founding ideology of the Republic of Turkey. In line with the purpose of the study, the documentary film named “Ankara Ambiance”, which was broadcast on Blu TV, a digital platform, was chosen as a sample. The “What Matters to Heart and Love” episode, which was broadcast as the first episode of the documentary, was analyzed using the content analysis method. As a result of the study, it has been evaluated that collective memory is reproduced in the form of space with administrative, political and ideological perspectives. The idea is that the founding leader is a common value which is effective in the reproduction of space in the form of collective memory and is closely related to the social space of individuals and the types of capital they have.

The research deals with the conservation of modern architectural heritage with a focus on the interior. The user coming into direct contact with the interior makes it prone to subsequent interventions, although this also makes the protection of the interior space problematic. The research aims to address this problem through the consideration of a cinema structure in Ankara, namely Kavaklıdere Cinema. This Nejat Tekelioğlu apartment cinema building was built in 1965 and constitutes the sample of the research. In the first part of the research, the subject of the protection of modern architectural heritage is conveyed using a value-centered conservation approach. Different institutions and individuals have included definitions of value. In the following part, the emergence of cinema and its spatialization process are explained. In the final part, the interior analysis was conveyed through plans and interior photographs of the Kavaklıdere Cinema, which was chosen as a sample. An oral history interview was held with Ayhan Nergiz, the owner of the cinema, as well as with Zafer Şener and İrfan Demirkol, who have been the managers of the cinema for many years. Voluntary consent forms were obtained during the interviews. The personal archives of the interviewees were used as visual materials. Finally, Kavaklıdere Cinema was evaluated, according to the framework of the value-centered conservation approach, in terms of the value of the documents, identity, architecture, function and economic, continuity, memory, and originality. As a result of the evaluations, the features that Kavaklıdere Cinema should have in order to be considered as a modern architectural heritage have been analyzed, and the necessity of protecting the building has been emphasized. In addition to providing research, documentation and valuation, this study also serves as a basis for the work that needs to be done to protect Kavaklıdere Cinema.