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Article Traffic Policies for Sustainable Traditional Environments: the Case of Ankara Citadel(2015) Elker, CüneytTraditional environments were built in conformity with social, cultural and technological circumstances that shape their chronological and geographical framework. The absence of motor vehicles was their common characteristics at the times they were built and developed. This is probably the principal reason of the sense of human scale that rules these environments. Consequently, vehicular traffic is one of the main factors affecting negatively traditional environments. Besides various factors such as pollution, noise, etc. motor traffic ruins the social life and the human scale that exist in traditional settlements. Urban transportation modes have dissimilar physical and technical characteristics affecting urban environment in different ways. This diversity of properties creates the possibility of formulating alternative policies by supporting or discouraging the use of particular transportation modes.Article The Use of Multicriteria Decision Methods in Planning and Design(2015) Elker, CüneytFields associated with design and physical planning are appropriate domains for the use of multicriteria decision methods. Various methods are compared and “weighted summation” technique is put forward as the most suitable method for the needs of design and planning. The case of city planning is used to illustrate the methodology. The phases of “design of alternatives”, “determination of objectives and criteria” and “evaluation” are described with the help of examples. The paper concludes with principles and problems in the use of multicriteria decision methods in design and planning.Article Towards More Rational Approaches in Architectural Design: the Use of Multi-Criteria Decision Methods(2015) Elker, CüneytToday, scientific approaches are far from being adequately exploited in these fields of design and physical planning. However, the structure of these disciplines requires the use of rational techniques particularly during the decision process. In the paper, the structure of decision problems encountered in physical planning is analyzed and the need for the use of rational methods is demonstrated. Available methods are compared and a multi-criteria technique is put forward as the most suitable method for architectural design. The proposed methodology is illustrated through the case of the design of patients’ floor in a hospital.
