Elif Karaca

• Phd
• Professor (Assistant) at Çankırı Karatekin University

Statue is the three-dimensional concrete form created by the designer with materials that he determines depending on his purpose. Statues in urban landscapes are elements of artistic, aesthetic and cultural importance in the life of societies. In this study, answers to the following two questions are sought: (1) Does the meaning of statues in urban...

For a while, today's modern people have been struggling with various problems which threaten their health including climate change, water and food scarcities, depression etc. Also, most recently, they have been faced with a more complicated-unfamiliar problem, pandemic. And in the future, what kind of different problems to be faced to threaten thei...

Understanding the user’s needs and expectations is essential if quality is perceived as meeting multidimensional needs and expectations of the user. During the landscape design process from concept to implementation, designer’s experience and knowledge are taken as fundamentals for a quality creation but user’s expectations are only reflected in th...

Edible Landscapes as a Solution to Food Security Problem

Salutogenesis is a concept that focuses on the origins of health, in contrast to the pathogenesis that is the traditional concept study of the sources of disease. More broadly salutogenic approach is a health promoting source that encourages a person or society to feel physically and mentally healthy, with a good quality of life and sense of well-b...

Designing the built environments, which people live in as user, and which shape their senses and emotions, enable participation to social life and affect their general well-being, is a closely related and complicated process with the multifaceted needs of the individual. This process should be shaped around the core values that user requests and ne...

Studies have shown that outdoors have several positive effects for people, especially healing gardens restore mental or physical health of patients, residents and visitors. They can provide faster healing. Healing gardens are designed for places such as hospitals oncology, psychiatry, children's hospitals and etc.), Nursing homes, Rehabilitation ce...

This study was conducted for the purpose of determine the suitability of water-wise landscape of plants which were supplied by Çankırı Municipality for landscape arrangements in 2012. The other purpose of study is to determine the suitability of water-wise landscape of turfgrass plants which were used on traffic island, parks and public institution...