This is a interesting situation happened in Ankara which i have learned from Dr. Can Altay's lecture in AA last night. Young boys and girls gather at some of the semi-public space in residential area such as pavement area in front of housing or between two buildings at night, sitting there, drinking and talking or making friends. Those places are un-defined area in the city,normally have no commercial uses on ground floor,so the sidewalk area is available for those nightlife and socialising.
And some of the minibar site were taken over by the residential owners or some formal bar owners who wanted to keep their private realm or wanted to make commercial use of those potential area. They built higher defence of the pavement area to stop people sitting on the low masonry wall, or turned the space into a normal outdoor sitting place of bar. These has ended the unregulated production of new uses for these unprogrammed space.
From the case we can see how those small-scale everyday activities have influence in urban space. Those unprogrammed space is open to reconfiguration, and were transformed by such self-driven or spontaneous events. The final result is more critical, the external intervention may deprive the possibility of activity's happening , or take advantage of the social invention to
some professional designed production.
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