Browsing Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture by Issue Date
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Housing rehabilitation and its role in neighborhood change: a framework for evaluation
(Locke Science, 1998)In most empirical studies of neighborhood change, particularly those on the issue of gentrification, the analysis focuses either on variations in population, transformations in the housing market, or modifications in the ... -
Studio instructors talk about skills, knowledge, and professional roles in architecture and landscape architecture
(Sage, 1998)This article examines the attitudes of studio instructors in architecture and landscape architecture departments throughout the United States toward the designer's role, sources of knowledge and inspiration in design, ... -
To design versus to understand design: The role of graphic representations and verbal expressions
(Elsevier, 1999)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 ... -
Cultural diversity, public space, aesthetics and power
(Routledge, 1999)In this paper we argue that issues of inclusion and exclusion to public space can be examined by invoking the principle of "aesthetics". Those that are aesthetically pleasing, tasteful, or desirable are allowed in public ... -
Spontaneous settlements in Turkey and Bangladesh: preconditions of emergence and environmental quality of gecekondu settlements and bustees
(Elsevier, 2001)Spontaneous settlements are common phenomena in many third world countries. Although the different geographical locations, along with morphological factors, play an important role in shaping up different physical settings, ... -
Reinvention of tradition as an urban image: the case of Ankara Citadel
(Sage, 2002)Debates on urban tourism have been coupled with a widespread discourse on 'placelessness', 'loss of identity', and 'standardization' related to the modernist ideology of planning. In this respect, utilizing this historic ... -
Spatial, social and temporal compromise on the border
(International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, 2002)This paper focuses on Alanya a mid-size town alaong the Mediterranean costs of Turkey, where a shift from agricultural production to tourism has been experienced over the last 20 years, resulting in waves of migration. In ... -
A place of identity and fear: boundaries experienced in a "Gypsy" Quarter in Ankara
(International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), 2002)This paper explores the practices of exclusion, segregation and conflict in Çinçin Baglari, a rigidly defined quarter in Ankara, Turkey. This quarter has gained a reputation as an "unruly" place inhabited by lawless people, ... -
Interrupted happiness: class boundaries and the 'impossible love' in turkish melodrama
(University of Leicester, 2003)Social classes in Turkey, the existence of which is often denied in dominant political discourses, are nevertheless apparent in a wide range of cultural forms including the cinema, particularly the melodrama of the 1960s ... -
Complexity of socio-spatial transformations through tourism: a Mediterranean Village, Kaleköy
(Routledge, 2004)This article reflects on the complex consequences of tourism development in the isolated Mediterranean village of Kaleko¨y. Built on the antique city of Simena of the 4th century BC and having remnants also from Hellenistic, ... -
The changing roles of female labour in economic prosperity and decline: the case of Istanbul clothing industry
(Wiley‐Blackwell, 2005)In this chapter, we use our research on female labor in Istanbul’s clothing industry to examine the effects of industrial boom and bust cycles on women’s lives.1 First, we trace how women gained entry into new globally ... -
The Changing pattern of segregation and exclusion: The case of Ankara
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The shape of the nation: visual production of nationalism through maps in Turkey
(Elsevier, 2010)Nationalism, as a political discourse requiring a fundamental connection to a particular territory has constantly referred to maps as evidence of the eternal existence of the respective nation. In the case of modern Turkey, ... -
Bioethics committees and examining consent within the patient-physician relationship in Turkey
(Yozmot Heiliger (1989) Ltd., 2010)Clinical exercises include questions about a physician's behaviour, decision making process, values, rights and responsibilities, as much as the scientific-technical questions concerning the disease. Some of these questions ... -
Early Republican Ankara: struggle over historical representation and the politics of urban historiography
(Sage, 2011)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 ... -
Minarets without mosques: limits to the urban politics of neo-liberal islamism
(SAGE, 2013)This paper discusses urban politics in contemporary Turkey through a particular architectural phenomenon: that of minarets without mosques. Local administrations under neo-liberal Islamists propose urban regeneration ... -
City profile: Ankara
(Elsevier, 2013, 4)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 ...
