Hierarchy of Territories in the Context of Safety Need in the Mass Housing Settlements: Sample of Kaşüstü/Trabzon

Abstract

Safety is one of the basic needs of people. In order to meet the need of safety, people create borders
with behaviourally or physically. In the past, the cities are defended against the threats by border
elements, which were mostly located around the cities. Nowadays, the rings of the borders have
become narrower due to the complex structure of cities. In this context, different spatial implements
and border elements are created in the mass housing settlements that give importance to safety. The
provision of hierarchy of territories –including private, semi-private, semi-public and public- is
important in the mass housing settlements in the terms of meeting the safety need. The aim of this
study is to examine the existence of the hierarchy of territories in the sample of mass housing
settlement that give importance to safety. For this purpose, firstly, spatial implements to meet safety
need are discussed. Then, the implements for meeting safety need were analysed in the selected
settlement of mass housing. This analysis based on two parameters. First is the existence of the
hierarchy of territories and the other is the quality of the boundary elements that define this hierarchy.