Insurmountable Tension? On the Relation of World Heritage and Rapid Urban Transformation in Istanbul

Marquart, Vivienne

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“…Therefore, World Heritage sites have been affected by urbanization processes due to their acceptability for investments in the tourism and housing sectors. Due to the limited intervention of UNESCO in these areas at the local level, the protection of historic neighbourhoods such as Zeyrek and Süleymaniye remains insufficient [47]. Furthermore, the poor design of the existing neighbourhoods and the construction of the densely built environment prevent a strong interaction of these Byzantine and Ottoman icons.…”

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“…The isovist (fields of view) obtained by making use of the properties of the form or (urban and geographical) morphology [16]. Michael L. Benedikt defined isovist as "The set of all points visible from a given vantage point in space and with respect to an environment" [17] (p. 47). Based on this definition, it is possible to generate a defined visual field of the spaces and features from an observer's point of view in different points in space.…”

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Visibility Model of Tangible Heritage. Visualization of the Urban Heritage Environment with Spatial Analysis Methods

Sarihan

2021

Heritage

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The methodological approach of the study proposes an innovative yet adaptive way to define and preserve heritage sites and their elements. In the case study, the proposed methodology guides the design/planning research of heritage sites by linking the perceptual behaviour with the information of the built environment. Visibility is the tool to measure the level of exposure of specific urban elements from a particular perspective. While isovist analyses define visibility in the built environment, fields of view from the periphery of heritage sites are applied to calculate visible or invisible areas by the observer. The purpose of the current study is the evaluation of the identification of the elements to be protected, by modelling both the heritage environment and the heritage elements according to the visibility criteria. For this purpose, I illustrate my approach by using visibility analyses and Space syntax analysis in the case of the Sulukule neighbourhood, the leading renewal project, in Istanbul. This area used to have notably cultural–historical assets–historic land walls, the lifestyle of Roma people—but now the renovation works carried out in the Sulukule case study site have affected the identity of the “visible” and “known” space of the historic quarter.

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Visibility Model of Tangible Heritage. Visualization of the Urban Heritage Environment with Spatial Analysis Methods

Sarihan

2021

Heritage

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“…Specifically, the report sites ongoing practices at construction sites that have directly damaged the Theodosian Land Walls, one of the four WHS (Çorakbaş, Aksoy, and Ricci 2014). Urban regeneration schemes have also continued to be implemented in historic areas, leading to their continued loss (Marquart 2014;Yetiskul, Kayasü, and Ozdemir 2016;Yildirim 2015). Therefore, while the event was an effective engine to address short term and immediate problems, it was not as successful in addressing many of the embedded systematic shortcomings in the existing complex governance structure of the city's heritage.…”

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Synergies and Frictions between Mega-events and Local Urban Heritage

Jones

2017

Built Heritage

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Increasingly, cities have turned to mega-events as part of strategies to secure much desired global recognition and attract future economic investment. These events have a broad range of physical effects on the city and can also introduce new concepts of the city. For historic cities, mega-events can potentially have a profound influence on the city's urban heritage, both physically and how heritage comes to be understood and defined. Recent changing trends in mega-events could come to see them more closely integrated into the existing city fabric, making the potential impact of mega-events on built heritage more pronounced. One long-standing event embedded within the city fabric that serves as a noteworthy example is the European Capital of Culture (ECoC), operating for 30 years and travelling between more than 50 cities. The paper presents the European Capital of Cultures of Genoa 2004, Liverpool 2008 and Istanbul 2010 as three diverse cases with differing themes and roles for heritage in order to review the potential synergy or friction between events and heritage and calls for heritage actors to become more involved in these processes.

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World Heritage Manufacture in Turkey and the Introduction of a New Public Policy System

Boucly¹

2018

Turkish Cultural Policies in a Global World

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Insurmountable Tension? On the Relation of World Heritage and Rapid Urban Transformation in Istanbul

Abstract: I would like to thank the editorial board and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on earlier drafts of this article Insurmountable Tension? On the Relation of World Heritage and Rapid Urban Tra...

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

Visibility Model of Tangible Heritage. Visualization of the Urban Heritage Environment with Spatial Analysis Methods

Visibility Model of Tangible Heritage. Visualization of the Urban Heritage Environment with Spatial Analysis Methods

Synergies and Frictions between Mega-events and Local Urban Heritage

World Heritage Manufacture in Turkey and the Introduction of a New Public Policy System

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