Abstract In the wake of the eco-civilization agenda launched by the Chinese government and of the recent pandemic, Chinese municipalities are increasingly embracing the “healthy city model”, striving to streamline health issues into an improved urban environment. This article explores the genealogy of the model as well as its implication and links to other urban …
Abstract Xujiapeng is a working-class neighborhood located in the center of Wuhan Municipality, the provincial capital of Hubei in China. This district on the banks of the Yangtze River developed at the start of the twentieth century with the policies of industrial modernization. Since the mid-2000s, this neighborhood has faced a major urban renewal project …
Abstract The article focuses on the actions of the High Council for Immovable Historic Works and Monuments (HC), which was active from 1951 to 1983 as the sole decision-maker in issues of historic preservation for all historic structures and sites in Turkey. The HC archives reveal a historical and political framework for understanding the context …
Abstract The history of Simkeşhane, the imperial mint (for coin production) constructed in the seventeenth century over the Theodisus’s Forum, or the Forum Tauri which was the largest forum of the Constantinople constructed in the fourth century ACE., is particular because in each period, urban projects on Simkeshane created conflicts between various actors and institutions. …
Abstract The paper explores how interpretations of vernacular traditional architecture played a significant role in the development of urban conservation practice in Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s. At the turn of the twentieth century, the value of Ottoman historic residential architecture began to develop with the label of the Turkish House. At the turn …
Abstract Modernization through Past investigates the construction process of the concept of ‘cultural heritage’ focusing on how political, social, and economic context had an impact on the understanding and management of cultural heritage in Turkey starting from the late-Ottoman period until 1950. With a critical perspective, the book covers a large time-span from the nineteenth …
Abstract In the contemporary Turkey, the concentrated authority over historic urban areas reached to an unprecedented peak that any researcher who deals with the contemporary heritage dynamics of Turkey needs to outline a narrative (similar to Polanski’s Chinatown) where one can trace power plays, political ambitions, land speculations, media manipulation, gender imbalance, and crime. Departing …