Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
NEW ARCH-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE, cilt.3, sa.2, ss.37-44, 2016 (Hakemli Dergi)
There is a well known interdependence between the architecture and the environment. The most relevant effect on environment is the human activity such as urbanization. But in the new cultural environment era, violence is a complex scenario. Media violence causes "mean world syndrome" and relate to the amount of television exploitable in terms of crime and urban policy in the new cultural environment. Choice of vernacular architecture instead of dense apartment blocks allows the emergence of the traditional neighbourhood spirit. The relationship between the lack of vegetation and the steep crime rate is almost a neglected topic of research in urban and communication studies. We can get the best results with minimal cost as a way to benefit from this relationship. So the question then arises whether the crime rate in countries with a poor vegetation cover is usually higher than in countries with fertile vegetation? Another problem is to settle mass people into a limited area. The public housing policy is claimed to damage the psychology of the residences in a negative way due to a scarce nature around their settlement? There have been few studies about this issue, published in peer reviewed scientific literature. This study is aimed to be an important precedent for other studies whole over the world. Turkey has seven distinct geographic, climatic regions and a few cities where there is an industrial attraction that causes rapid population growth and housing shortages. In other words, there is a wide spatial difference in the vegetation cover. During this research, in order to neglect the factor of the immigrants, location of crime was taken into account for criminals. Effective assessment was conducted by applying statistical analysis to decide on the relation between the vegetation cover and crime rates of Turkey. Crimes were classified into three categories as felonies, misdemeanours and infractions. A felony crime is the most serious of criminal offenses. In terms of seriousness, the most frequent felony type of crime was picked up for the analysis. A city-wise analysis results clearly indicate that there is a significant relation between the vegetation cover and crime rates.