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The concept of shopping, which emerged with exchange method within historical process, entered into a great transformation process with passages, which are regarded as prototypes of these places. Today, these structures became spaces which penetrate into daily life of people, social and cultural structures of cities. Therefore, it was inevitable to conduct comprehensive researches on them with their social, political, urban and architectural dimensions. As it can also be understood from each new construction of design that is put forward for malls, these places are designed with a visual structure that has similar characteristics to city centers albeit they diverge from cities in physical and social aspects. In other words, today’s shopping malls are constructed as urban spaces that incorporate various elements within themselves that belong to exterior space. In this line, covering malls in terms of architecture underlies this study. These places, which have become popular for people who have adapted to city life, are not able to go beyond being consumption-oriented limited spaces where only the act of shopping is materialized even though they have modern designs. These limited architectural designs and new suggestions brought forward as solutions to them were questioned within the context of this study. While doing this, first consumption culture and concept of shopping were examined by taking space construction into account and what these places represent as daily spheres of life were questioned. In this study, shopping centers were regarded as spaces that should gain a character in public sphere apart from being places where product and services are sold, it was anticipated that interaction between users and construct will steer this gain and will affect social life. This study, which emerged as a result of a need to examine present situation of these spaces that have great importance and to make prospective assessments, was prepared by utilizing journal, book, magazine and internet sources.
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