In recent years, sustainability concept has become the common interest of numerous disciplines. The reason for this popularity is, to perform the sustainable development of societies. Easiness of forming a relationship with the word "sustainability" is because of its social, economic and environmental aspects. The term provides different perspectives to different areas. Today, in educational sciences, "environmental sustainability" is one of the main subjects that lesson programs include several studies about. In education system in Turkey, to teach "sustainability" concept, teachers uses traditional education methods mostly. To tell "what sustainability is" only by words is not enough for using the knowledge in the practice. Besides this, students learn much more by seeing real examples rather than hearing about it. In this context, this study aims to nominate "school buildings" as valuable learning environments for students. In other words, school buildings can be seen as 3D text books written by architects. Architecture discipline deals with environmental sustainability and defines various sustainability criteria. Environmental sustainability is related with built environment design and designing with the natural environment. In this study, sustainable school buildings had been analysed related with their design criteria and as a result an evaluation made about using architecture and its products as a concrete material for sustainability education.
Till 16th century, the city of Izmir that located around a sheltered bay surrounded by rivers, valleys and mountains was a small town with an economy based on farming activities. In the 17th century, in accordance with the large trade volume of the Mediterranean era, the city had become an important port not only in Ottoman lands but also in the east Mediterranean. As a result of its importance for the region and for the commerce network, the city attracted attention of travellers from the 16th century with an increasing frequency in the 17th century. The travellers who visited the city had shared their experiences related to the geography, topography, economy and socio-cultural life of Izmir through their notes, paintings and the photographs. In this context, this paper aims to rediscover the city of Izmir through the experiences of the travellers. As the data related to the 19th century of the city is much more varied such as travel notes, engravings, maps and photographs, the study focuses on the 19th century. With the aim of rediscovering the culture-space relations of the city through the observations and expressions of the travellers, the physical and socio-cultural formation of the city will be examined while the differential perceptions and comments will be evaluated through a comparative study.
The expansion of the cities after the industrial revolution led to new urban dynamics and cities began to develop in a disorganized way according to arising new needs. This uncontrolled development brought the need for urban transformation/renewal in Turkey as well as in other countries. In Turkey, the terms 'urban transformation' has not clearly been understood by the city dwellers due to the increasing unearned income policies and unmonitored projects. This paper aims to draw attention to this problem and analyze the notion of urban transformation from the perspective of the city dwellers with a case study carried out in Alaybey-Izmir. In the case study which was implemented on two distinct groups, namely children and adults, the survey was employed for data collection. The findings reveal that both the children and the adults were able to detect the problems in their neighborhoods that cause transformation. But they understood the "urban transformation" differently from the definition given in the literature. Based on this result, it is suggested that the awareness of residents regarding the urban transformation should be raised. On the other hand, the expectations from the transformation project differ between children and adults. This result proves the claim that the studies from the perspective of adults cannot represent children. As is seen in the case study, children should be analyzed as a distinct subgroup in studies concerning the urban transformation.
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