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Blended learning in design education: an analysis of students' experiences within the disciplinary differences framework
(A S C I L I T E, 2014)Blended learning has already become an indispensable part of education in many fields. However, the majority of existing research on blended learning has assumed homogeneity of disciplines. This study suggests that research ... -
Everywhere is Taksim': The Politics of Public Space from Nation-building to Neoliberal Islamism and Beyond
(Sage Publications, Inc., 2015-03)This article discusses the politics of public space through the particular example of Taksim Square in Istanbul. Tracing Taksim’s history since the early twentieth century, the article analyzes the instrumentalization ... -
"Early Republican Ankara": Struggle over Historical Representation and the Politics of Urban Historiography
(SAGE Publications Inc, 2011-08)This article discusses the emergence of a particular historical representation: that of "early republican Ankara." Becoming the capital of the newly born Turkish nation-state in 1923, Ankara was conceived as the symbolic ... -
City Profile: Ankara
(Elsevier Limited, 2013)Although Ankara has a long history, it is generally known for its twentieth century development as the designed capital of the newly-born Turkish nation-state. The early episode of the city's growth displayed a typical ... -
Retailers' Resilience Strategies and their Impacts on Urban Spaces in Turkey
(Elsevier Limited, 2014)Recent developments in the retail sector in Turkey have created a dynamic environment, with different resilience strategies of actors forming the sector providing a new context in which to discuss urban transformation. The ... -
Critique by Design:Tackling Urban Renewal in the Design Studio
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2014-07)The dominant mode of urbanization in our contemporary world is marked by large scale urban renewal projects, which are deployed with little or no consideration given to the social predicaments. The urban design studio can ... -
Towards prosperous sustainable cities: A multiscalar urban sustainability assessment approach
(Elsevier Limited, 2015-01)Prosperity and environmental sustainability of cities are inextricably linked. Cities can only maintain their prosperity when environmental and social objectives are fully integrated with economic goals. Sustainability ... -
Retail planning and urban resilience - An introduction to the special issue
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To design versus to understand design: the role of graphic representations and verbal expressions
(Elsevier, 1999-03)While the primary objective of design education is essentially teaching how to design, the process of understanding a design product is another important and obvious goal of design education. Here, the aim is to find out ... -
The Virtual Design Studio on the Cloud: a Blended and Distributed Approach for Technology-mediated Design Education
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-04-24)The studio is widely accepted as the core in design education because it aims to integrate many curricular topics within its scope. However, learning environments in studio teaching have not been explored and exploited as ... -
A Different Story of Secularism: The Censorship of Religion in Turkish Films of the Sixties and Early Seventies
(Sage Publications Ltd., 2012-02)This article extends the discussion of Turkish secularism from political history to cultural history. It examines censorship of religious elements in Turkish films of the 1960s and early 1970s based on the reports of the ... -
Domestic Arrangements: The Maid's Room in the Atakoy Apartment Blocks, Istanbul, Turkey
(Taylor & Francis Group Ltd, 2012-12-04)The first phase of Istanbul's Ataköy Housing Development, an icon of architectural modernism in Turkey, inflects modernist architectural forms with local domestic traditions. This study examines the maid's room, a sphere ... -
Taste Diaspora: The Aesthetic and Material Practice of Belonging
(Sage Publications Ltd., 2014)A particular ‘Turkish taste in Vienna’, which has been formed through experiences of migration from Turkey and resettlement in Vienna, serves as a significant aesthetic and social medium for constituting a collective ... -
Immigrant Integration Through Public Relations and Public Diplomacy: An Analysis of the Turkish Diaspora in the Capital of the European Union
(Routledge, 2014-06)This research focuses on the European Union's (EU) public relations and public diplomacy efforts for immigrant integration. It uncovers the relationship between the EU and leaders of Turkish associations in Brussels, ... -
The online presence of turkish banks: Communicating the softer side of corporate identity
(Elsevier, 2014-03)This study tries to understand the process of organizational identity construction and the role of public relations in assisting this process. This study focuses on Turkey's banking sector to understand how organizational ... -
The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility in Online Identity Construction: An Analysis of turkey's Banking Sector
(Elsevier Ltd, 2014-07-21)This study focuses on Turkey's banking sector and investigates the role of public relations and corporate social responsibility practices in constructing organizational identities through a thematic content analysis of ... -
The layered dependency structure matrix for managing collaborative design processes
(Open House International, 2014-03)Effective collaboration and knowledge management are the major contributors of success in the construction industry. Although a huge amount of interdisciplinary knowledge is exchanged in building design processes, there ... -
Colour contribution to children's wayfinding in school environments
(Elsevier Limited, 2011)The purpose of this study was to explore the contribution of colour to children's wayfinding ability in school environments and to examine the differences between colours in terms of their remembrance and usability in route ... -
Spatial updating of objects after rotational and translational body movements in virtual environments
(Elsevier Limited, 2008-05)Spatial reasoning in architectural design can be better understood by considering the factors that affect the spatial updating process of the individual in an environment. This study focuses on the issue of spatial updating ... -
Universal Product Design Involving Elderly Users: A Participatory Design Model
(Elsevier Limited, 2004)Recent studies have shown that people prefer to age in their familiar environments, thus guiding designers to provide a safe and functionally appropriate environment for ageing people, regardless of their physical conditions ...
