Özet:

Urban awareness is the sense of belonging and responsibility that individuals develop towards the cities in which they live. This feeling enables individuals to exhibit a more active and more participatory behavior in urban life. Thus, a strong bond is formed between the city and individuals, and individuals feel themselves an important part of the city and reflect this on their behaviors. In particular, some tools related to the city are effective in order to promote the rights, accessibility, inclusion in society and participation in city administration of people with disabilities, who are defined as fragile groups of the city. One of these is the Disabled People's Assembly established within the city councils. The Disabled People's Assembly is a joint structure that aims to enable people with disabilities to contribute to the city administration, take an active role and is based on a voluntary basis. In this context, it is aimed to reveal the importance of Bozcaada City Council Disabled People's Assembly in increasing the urban awareness of disabled individuals. For this purpose, urban consciousness and the disabled people's assembly were first addressed by conducting a literature review, and then the working procedures and principles of the Disabled People's Assembly of the Bozcaada City Council were examined. In the examination, it was concluded that the disabled people's assembly is effective in creating urban consciousness in disabled people and that it is necessary to establish the disabled people's assembly within various municipal units at the local level in order to activate disabled people in all cities.

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