Browsing by Subject "Urban memory"

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Ankara'nın ilk sosyal ayak izi: AOÇ Merkez Lokantası
(Bilkent University, 2022) Hacımusalar, Bilge; Bektaş, Ece; Demirbaş, Doğa; Çamurdan, Göksun Ural; Ertem, Eray
Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nin başkenti olan Ankara, Cumhuriyet Döneminin başlarında henüz gelişmekte olan bir şehirdi. Genç Cumhuriyet ütopyası olarak kurulmaya çalışılan başkent, zamanla çağdaş insan modelinin çizildiği bir merkez haline gelmiştir. Bu şehrin kuruluş aşamasında Atatürk Orman Çiftliği cumhuriyetin temsil ettiği fikirlerin somut bir örneği oldu. Çiftlik 1925 yılında kurulduğunda ise topluma hizmet eden ortak bir kültür merkezi ve böylelikle de kentsel hafıza yaratılması için uygun bir ortam halini aldı. Atatürk Orman Çiftliği’nin bir parçası olan Merkez Lokantası, oluşturulmak istenen kentsel belleğin sosyal ayağını oluşturuyordu. Dönemin önemli eğlence mekânları ve lokantaları arasında yerini alan Merkez Lokantası, yeme içme ve eğlence kültürüyle kentsel belleğe katkıda bulunmuştur. Bu makalede ise kentsel belleğin ne olduğundan ve öneminden; Atatürk Orman Çifliği’nin kuruluş süreci ve Ankara’nın gelişimindeki payından; bu çiftliğin bir parçası olan Merkez Lokantasının tarihi, topluma etkisi ve öneminden bahsedilmektedir
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Evading time and place in Ankara: a reading of contemporary urban collective memory through recent transformations
(SAGE Publications, 2019) Sak, Segah; Şenyapılı, Burcu
Based on precedent theories on collective memory and urban studies, this article develops a framework of approach to contemporary urban collective memory. Understanding urban collective memory by handling people and urban space as a system provides a sociospatial perspective for critical approaches to cities. The study initially provides overviews of theoretical approaches to collective memory and city, and then puts forth constituents of urban collective memory. Based on these constituents, contemporary urban collective memory is discussed, and a framework for analyzing contemporary cities in terms of urban space and urban experience is introduced. For a clear portrayal of urban issues within the context, the introduced framework is devised through the case of Ankara, the capital city of Turkey and the inspiring force behind this study. This framework aims to present a ground to assess people’s relation to urban spaces in the contemporary era.
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Kuzgun Acar ve Türkiye'nin kayıp kent belleği
(Bilkent University, 2025) Okur, Emin Bora; Güllüce, Yusuf; Polat, Tülin Feyza; Ürensel, Ömer; Aksoy, Tayfun Burak
Bu çalışma sanatçı ve heykeltıraş Kuzgun Acar’ın hayatı ve eserleri üzerinden Türkiye’de kent belleği kavramının ne olduğunu ve nasıl kaybolabileceğini anlatmaktadır. Bu anlatı yapılırken Kuzgun Acar’ın eserlerinin hangi sanatsal ve düşüncesel akımlardan etkilendiğini ve eserlerinin kayboluşunda sanatsal özelliklerinin nasıl bir rol oynadığına değinilecektir. En bilinen iki eseri olan Türkiye Rölyefi ve Kuşlar anlatıda temel oluştururken ismi geçen eserlerin Türk kent belleğindeki yerleri belirgin bir şekilde ortaya koyulacaktır. Acar’ın eserlerinin kayboluş hikâyesi gibi özel ve tekil bir örnek üzerinden kent belleklerinin nasıl kaybolduğu ve nasıl korunabileceği anlatılmaktadır.
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The legacy of the hippodrome at Constantinople
(1998) Varinlioğlu, Günder
Circuses were among the most popular Roman entertainment buildings from the early seventh century BC up to the sixth century AD. Although they were primarily designed for chanot races, circuses remained closely tied to the public life of a city by incorporating a number of religious, commercial and ceremonial functions. Their role in Roman daily and political life further increased in the late Empire and especially under the tetrarchy when the circus, which was by then physically connected to the imperial palace, has become the major arena for the visual and verbal contact between the emperor and the public, and a sine qua non component of tetrarchic centers. The Hippodrome of Constantinople believed to be started by Septimius Severus at the end of the second century and completed by Constantine in 330 AD, had a peculiar place among Roman circuses, because it was the circus par excellence of the Eastern Roman Empire. On the other hand, up to the twelfth century, it kept alive the tradition of chariot races which gradually became interwoven in imperial ceremonies. Furthermore, the Hippodrome adjunct to the Great Palace of the emperors, represented the fundamental public space of the city which was also a religious, administrative, commercial, ceremonial and entertainment center. Today, the Atmeydani (the place of horses), spanning almost half a kilometer from the Northwest to the Southeast between Sultan Ahmet Mosque and the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts (former Ibrahim Paşa Palace), still recalls the memory of chariot races through its name. The site bears the surviving remains of the structure, limited to two obelisks and a column, namely the Theodosian Obelisk, the Serpent Column and the Column of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, located on the longitudinal middle axis of the arena and the monumental brick and rubble substructures of the semicircular southern end (sphendone) of the Hippodrome. Although such an important building has been continuously mentioned and described by waters and travelers throughout the centunes, neither the constructional history nor the architectural charactenstics of the Hippodrome have been securely reconstructed. This paper encounters two broad questions about the Hippodrome at Constantinople: First, it investigates the role of the Hippodrome in the public life of the city and in the urban memory, from its inauguration up to the twentieth century. This first study is based on the interpretation of the secondary sources, the accounts of ancient authors and chroniclers as well as the pictorial matenal (miniatures, engravings, maps, photographs etc.) that was handed over throughout centuries. Second, it attempts to locate the Hippodrome in the tradition of circus building through a comparative analysis of the available data on a number of late Roman circuses. This second study consists of the evaluation of the archaeological excavations and surveys previously carried out on the site in comparison to the field survey and documentation work we have undertaken at the substructures of the sphendone in 1997, in order to discuss the earliest and subsequent building phases of the surviving remains and thus locate it in a building tradition. Reassessing the urban and constructional value of the Hippodrome in the past and its legacy in the present, we aim at drawing attention to the urgent need of preservation and presentation of the remains to the general public.