NOTES ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF NEIGHBOURHOOD: THE NEIGHBOURHOOD RELATIONS AS A LOST VALUE

Abstract

One of the most important problems of today's cities is that they have became cold human settlements without identity and personality. Although urban renewal operations provide reformation of physical fabric, it has difficulties with producing socially and culturally attractive spaces. In this context, in our suggestions about our cities, it is required to enable the reproduction of neighborhood life with spatial design. This papers claims that good values such as neighborhood, cooperation and commitment to space which are expected from the ancient neighborhood are weakend; therefore although the ancient neighborhood can be constructed physically, it can not be produced in terms of inner world and human relations; this is not because of the wrong building activity but rather it is a problem of transformation of the value area. The claim of the impossibility of the neighborhood is based on the assumption that the neighborhood is a lost value in today's conditions. It is possible to mention many general and special reasons that narrow and make the neighborhood undesirable. These reasons are mainly consist of the frequency of people's displacement; the replacement of social satisfaction by television and social media which were previously provided by neighborhood relations, the rise of individualism, the loss of trust with the rise of capitalist values and the rise of consumption-driven happiness.