Borders (in between): A City within a City Decoding Different Morphologies of Fragmented Housing

Cities act as living organisms that bring people together and contain different social aspects in heterogeneity. When people with similar lifestyles regarding income and culture come together in enclosed groups, places are divided into physical and social gated communities which create unseen borders between different groups of people. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the effects of segregated spaces separated by physical or social borders in the city. Firstly, gated communities, which are presented as contemporary walled island, will be discussed by focusing on the concept of segregation as a result of these borders in relation with morphology. Accordingly, an evaluation framework has been developed on three main scales, which are based on the Conzen's classification of space, to create a systematic overview to analyze the segregated morphology. Sinpas Ege Valley Housing Project and its surrounded slums, which were located on the Dikmen Valley of Ankara having a different typology and borders in-between, is chosen as a representative case of the aforementioned segregation to analyze the effects of these unseen borders on space typologies, people's space usage and activity patterns.