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Article Citation Count: 3Haydarpaşa için Sürdürülebilir bir Post-Endüstriyel Kurgu(2023) Avcı, Sare Nur; Okta, Bırge Yıldırım; Karaca, Ayşegül; Bilgin, RüyaGünümüzde post-endüstriyel peyzaj alanları, tarihi ve kültürel miras olma özellikleriyle ve sosyo-politik açıdan vaat ettikleri ekonomik fayda ve potansiyellerle kent için kritik bir role sahiptir. Bu alanlar, yeni projelerin etkisi ile birlikte peyzaj karakterlerinin, yerel ayırt edici özelliklerinin, kamusal kullanımlarının azalması gibi tehditlerle karşılaşmaktadırlar. Avrupa’da 1970’li yıllardan itibaren sanayi alanlarının korunmasına yönelik yeni yaklaşımlar ve uygulamalar aranmıştır. Post[1]endüstriyel alanların bütüncül ve sürdürülebilir bir yaklaşımla dönüştürülmesi, söz konusu alanların kimliklerinin ve toplumsal değerlerinin korunmasında, etkin kamusal alanlar olarak kente yeniden entegre olmalarının sağlanmasında önemli bir etkendir. Bu anlamda incelendiğinde, Haydarpaşa bir post-endüstriyel peyzaj alanı olarak İstanbul’un kentsel büyümesi, altyapı gelişimi, kent kimliği ve hafızası açısından büyük öneme sahiptir. Kent merkezindeki lokasyonu, ulaşım ağlarına yakınlığı ve canlı kent hayatıyla çevrelenmiş olması dolayısıyla oldukça değerli olan bu alan, 21. yüzyılda kentsel dönüşüm proje önerilerinin merkezi haline gelmiştir. Haydarpaşa’nın mirası ve kent belleğindeki yeri, onun “yere has duygusuna” ve tarihsel sürekliliğine müdahale eden ticarileştirme amaçları ve alanın ya da toplumun hassasiyetlerini gözetmekten uzak olan mega-dönüşüm tasavvurları ile kaybolmaktadır. Bu makalede, post-endüstriyel peyzaj alanlarının korunması ve kente yeniden kazandırılmasına dair, küresel sürdürülebilir kalkınma hedeflerinden, güncel koruma ve yeniden kullanım yaklaşımlarından hareketle bir model geliştirilmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Dünya çapında kabul görmüş sürdürülebilir koruma ilkeleri bu doğrultuda incelenmiş, endüstriyel yapıların çevrelerindeki peyzajla birlikte ele alınması gerekliliği üzerinde durulmuştur. Böylece, küresel sürdürülebilir kalkınma hedeflerinin post-endüstriyel peyzaj alanlarının korunması ve kente katılımında sunabileceği bir çerçeve, Haydarpaşa post-endüstriyel peyzajı özelinde incelenmiştir.Article Citation Count: 1LANDSCAPE URBANISM FOR THE LIVING: ISTANBUL’S GOLDEN HORN(Scibulcom Ltd., 2021) Okta, B.Y.; Arifoglu, B.Today, it has been learned by experience that physical environments designed/planned with only human focus only can not create resilient cities and overcome ecological destruction. This article is about a series of strategies developed for Habitat Halic Project for Istanbul’s Golden Horn to create a habitable environment for all living things. The biodiversity brought to Istanbul by the Golden Horn geographical system is one of the main reasons why Istanbul has been the capital of civilisations. The shallow waters of the estuary that meet the Bosphorus have the potential to offer a unique habitat for the flora and fauna. However, with the effect of environmental pollution on water, the currents and flows have been lost. The Golden Horn, which turned into an industrial port in the period when the industrialisation process of the Ottoman Empire was most intense in the 19th century, continued its function in the 20th century as the most important industrial zone of Istanbul within the Prost’s Master Plan for the city in 1936. The implementation of the master plan accelerated the pollution of the Golden Horn waters. Several rehabilitation projects, including recent ones failed to create a sustainable ecological environment. The Halic Project put forward a set of systems aimed at restoring the bird and fish fauna and aquatic vegetation that existed in the Golden Horn waters of the Istanbul Golden Horn until a century ago, and to develop a potential ecosystem of the Golden Horn. The project proposes macro and micro ecosystems for the recovery of biodiversity by using the potential of the Golden Horn to transform the area into a landscape infrastructure with ecological interventions. It offers strategies for improving the water and increasing biodiversity by adding new factors through the niches of existing species in the estuary ecosystem. © 2021, Scibulcom Ltd.. All rights reserved.Article Citation Count: 1Haydarpasa-Gebze Railway as a Heritage of Landscape Infrastructure(Scibulcom Ltd, 2018) Yıldırım-Okta, BirgeThe modernisation of the suburban railway on the Asian side of Istanbul is part of the ongoing Marmaray Project. The 44.2 km commuter line, composed of twenty-seven stations was opened in 1872, during the period of Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz. For the Ottomans the railway played a major role in the metamorphosis of the city/country. The establishment of railways marked a new era in the urban life of Ottoman towns and cities. The railway stations manifested modernisation, built to promote European architectural designs and became an integral part of urban social life. After the establishment of the Turkish Republic and the State Railways Company, the commuter line remained a key part of national policy and was seen as a manifestation of the young republic. The Marmaray Project aims to upgrade and join Asian and European suburban railway through a tunnel already built under the Bosporus. The work includes the demolition of old, original railway structures which are part of the architectural heritage of the historic railway network; also means the loss of an ecological green corridor. The research mainly discusses the need for preservation of the railway heritage, addressing its social and ecological benefits for the metropolitan city.Article Citation Count: 0Ecological Strategies for Designing Halys River: a Landscape of Flux(Scibulcom Ltd, 2019) Yıldırım-Okta, BirgeNatural and manmade disasters led to the emergence of new approaches in designing our environment in the postindustrial era. Modern technological infrastructures failure to respond to the challenges from environmental hazards led the designers to restructure the landscape. This in turn, led to a shift in landscape architecture, planning and architecture discipline. In the past decade green infrastructure has been a topic for debate among practitioners and theorists across different disciplines, ranging from architecture, urban planning, engineering to geography and biology. The discourse appears to be an operational and promising tool in planning, designing resilient eco-system based infrastructures. This paper discusses an interdisciplinary design proposal for Sivas, Halys River in a landscape urbanistic manner. The aim of the project was to create a cultural and ecological corridor in Sivas, Turkey that is adaptable to changes and dynamics over time, considerate to ecosystem and human conditions. In the light of discourse of green infrastructure the paper derives adaptive design strategies for ecological urbanism.Article Citation Count: 1Landscape Urbanism for the Living: Istanbul's Golden Horn(Scibulcom Ltd, 2021) Okta, B. Y.; Arifoglu, BurakToday, it has been learned by experience that physical environments designed/planned with only human focus only can not create resilient cities and overcome ecological destruction. This article is about a series of strategies developed for Habitat Halic Project for Istanbul's Golden Horn to create a habitable environment for all living things. The biodiversity brought to Istanbul by the Golden Horn geographical system is one of the main reasons why Istanbul has been the capital of civilisations. The shallow waters of the estuary that meet the Bosphorus have the potential to offer a unique habitat for the flora and fauna. However, with the effect of environmental pollution on water, the currents and flows have been lost. The Golden Horn, which turned into an industrial port in the period when the industrialisation process of the Ottoman Empire was most intense in the 19th century, continued its function in the 20th century as the most important industrial zone of Istanbul within the Prost's Master Plan for the city in 1936. The implementation of the master plan accelerated the pollution of the Golden Horn waters. Several rehabilitation projects, including recent ones failed to create a sustainable ecological environment. The Halic Project put forward a set of systems aimed at restoring the bird and fish fauna and aquatic vegetation that existed in the Golden Horn waters of the Istanbul Golden Horn until a century ago, and to develop a potential ecosystem of the Golden Horn. The project proposes macro and micro ecosystems for the recovery of biodiversity by using the potential of the Golden Horn to transform the area into a landscape infrastructure with ecological interventions. It offers strategies for improving the water and increasing biodiversity by adding new factors through the niches of existing species in the estuary ecosystem.Article Citation Count: 0Changing the Identity of a Place by Changing Street Names: the Process of Renaming the Streets of Üsküdar Between 1927-1934(Istanbul Teknik Universitesi, Faculty of Architecture, 2023) Dalgiç, E.N.; Yildirim Okta, B.Street names are part of our everyday lives. People constantly encounter street signs during their daily practices. Their visible position in the urban landscape makes street names suitable to use as visual/linguistic signifiers of cultures, histories, values, and ideologies. Renaming streets is one of the first actions of the new regimes to create their ideological hegemony in the territories they rule. It is essential to resolve the conflicts between urban memory and the sovereign’s history to legitimize their geographical claims by changing anything that does not match with their mental constructs in the urban landscape. This article provides a critical discourse analysis of the relationship between space, place, identity, urban memory, and street names by examining the alteration of street names in Üsküdar, a district of Istanbul, between 1927 and 1934. Even though Üsküdar was one of the regions where the minorities lived exceedingly in the Ottoman period, in the current Üsküdar identity, there are only a few traces left of its former inhabitants. Hence, in terms of redefining identity, Üsküdar can be considered a prominent example compared to the other regions the minorities lived in Istanbul. The primary source for this inquiry is Osman Nuri Ergin’s İstanbul Şehri Rehberi (Istanbul City Guide), which was published in 1934. Archival documents and newspaper articles about street name changes are also used in this research. The relationship between socio-political transformation in Üsküdar and changes in urban toponymy is investigated in this study. © 2023, Istanbul Teknik Universitesi, Faculty of Architecture. All rights reserved.Article Citation Count: 2Ecological Strategies for Designing Halys River: a Landscape of Flux(Scibulcom Ltd., 2019) Yıldırım-Okta, BirgeNatural and manmade disasters led to the emergence of new approaches in designing our environment in the postindustrial era. Modern technological infrastructures failure to respond to the challenges from environmental hazards led the designers to restructure the landscape. This in turn, led to a shift in landscape architecture, planning and architecture discipline. In the past decade green infrastructure has been a topic for debate among practitioners and theorists across different disciplines, ranging from architecture, urban planning, engineering to geography and biology. The discourse appears to be an operational and promising tool in planning, designing resilient eco-system based infrastructures. This paper discusses an interdisciplinary design proposal for Sıvas, Halys River in a landscape urbanistic manner. The aim of the project was to create a cultural and ecological corridor in Sıvas, Turkey that is adaptable to changes and dynamics over time, considerate to ecosystem and human conditions. In the light of discourse of green infrastructure the paper derives adaptive design strategies for ecological urbanism.
