User Evaluation In The Determination Of Quality: Building Components In Mass-Housing

摘要

Housing problems of Turkey, and especially those in its metropolitan areas arebased on migrations and sudden increases in population. Pressures for newhousing, and constraints in the urban land markets brought the need formass-production into the agenda of the late 70's. In this context, quantitativeaspects of the housing problem have been the dominant form of reasoning, insupport of the ideas and efforts related to 'mass-housing*. Qualitative andbehavioural problems were not in consideration before the 90's. This hadadverse effects both on the economy of the country in general, and on the usergroups. Several confirmations and warnings about the circumstances havebeen duly made:When all of existing supply systems, as squatters and housing inplanned areas are considered, sufficient number of houses areproduced in quantitative terms; but an agreeable environmental andspatial quality is far from being achieved (Tekeli, 1995, 357-367;author's translation).