Learning the City from the Inhabitants: Application of the Commented Walk Method in Urban Studies, Izmir - Selcuk and Bursa - Iznik Examples

Abstract

This article is based on the researches carried out in İzmir Selçuk in May 2015 and in Bursa İznik in September 2016. Cartographic redrawing method, which is a quantitative method, and commented walk method were used together in the researches to examine the change of cities. While the two methods are used together, it is aimed to examine the consequences of the commented walk method in detail due to the fact that this method is never used in the field of urbanism, however, it has made significant contributions to the researches. Therefore, the aim of this article is to discuss the place of commented walk method in urban studies, to contribute to the literature by revealing which themes the method brings to the fore and how it benefits to understand the change of the city. This article aims to discuss how the commented walk method is used in these researches and the contribution of this method to urbanism instead of explaining the change of cities over the years. Throughout the article, first of all, the findings obtained through quantitative methods have been examined and the transformation of the cities has been explained in detail. Then, the thematic headings of the commented walk method, which is the main subject of the article, is revealed, the findings are discussed and as a result, the contribution of this method in a research that tries to understand the change of cities is revealed.

Keywords

• mobile methodologies
• i̇znik; urban studies; commented walk; methodologies in urban studies; selçuk.