Ece Özden Pak
Urban planner. Graduated June 2007, Y.T.Ü. Urban Planning Department. Applicated to the Urban Design master programme at Y.T.Ü. (able to start 2008 autumn). Also taking place in an academic research about hierarchy of settlements in Turkey, it will become definite at the first of July because of approval process. Still working for Sulukule as a volunteer from 2007 August.
Evrim Yılmaz
evrim;
*is an urban planner, graduated from yildiz technical university.
*is trying to have her master degree in urban design in mimar sinan fine arts university.
*is pissed with the "so-called" urban renewal actions.
*is a member of sulukule platform.
*loves istanbul.
Pre Workshop Tours
Tue 11.03.08
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First arrivals + registration
Workshop Registration desk will be available from 6 PM in the lobby of the Hotel De Grand Londres / Büyük Londra Oteli
Early arrivees will informally meet at the lobby, and go for a dinner.
Wed 12.03.08
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Soft opening (+ continuing arrivals)
09:30 - 16:30A stroll around Taksim, the civic center of Istanbul.
Guided by Orhan EsenTaksim square is the undisputed and unavoidable hub of the metropolis. Every path leads over it. All discussions and manifestations of the public being in Istanbul focuses on Taksim. One immediately has the feeling 'to know' it. Still its complex history needs a de/reconstruction, as it sums up the history of modernization of Istanbul with its successes and failures. Tour starts and ends with an outlook into 19th century Pera, into the cosmopolitan boomtown of Ottoman early modernism. History of rise, decline, and gentrification of Pera is also at the very heart of all urban disputes at present.
09:30 Meeting at Büyük Londra Hotel, lobby
* Walk from Tepebashi to Taksim via Istiklal: Boomtown Pera and its decline
* The Maksem: Early beginnings: topography and water
* The rotunda with Ataturk monument: Dedicating space to the republic
* AKM (Ataturk Cultural Center, or the Opera), a facade: The most disputed architectural issue of the metropolis: demolition and rebuild or sanitation ?
* Tarlabashi bvd: 'the operation' with consequences
* Talimhane, 'exercise place' of the military and its transformations: An ideal settlement to the republican citizen. Market for car spare parts. Semi-gated tourist zone.
* Outlook to Tarlabashi or lower pera: The neo-slum and the reconquista in planning
* Taksim barracks and its transformation to the Taksim Promenade: Demolition dedicated to the idea of 'republican public space'. Giving up the promenade, breaking the chain of public space: public space squatted by international capital, by cars and by the migrants.
* AKM within the block: Problems of urban design between republican utopia and disillusion
* Gumussuyu / Ayaspasha: Elites between regression and modernity
* Park Hotel, 'the ruin': Early neoliberal aggression, success of citizens' initiatives, recovery of capital
* Cihangir / Cukurcuma / The Algerian/French/Algerian street: The Gentrification route, uphill, downhill
* Odakule and Marmara buildings: How mayor Dalan failed to build a
16:30 - 17:00
A visit to the IMP
Istanbul Metropolitan Planning and Urban Design Center
17:30-19:30
Lecture, Orhan Esen
Recent process of transformations of the metropolis
@ caravanserai, an independent art/culture project space in Aynalicesme
continuous registration during the day for late arrivals at Buyuk Londra Hotel and / or Caravanserai
20:00
Dinner @ Tavanarasi
meeting the Istanbul ws leaders
Thu 13.03
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09:00 - 19:00
Bus tour to the northern and eastern peripheries, guided by Orhan Esen
This tour will take the group to the margins of the metropolis. The tour will mainly prevail former agricultural or forestry areas that were target of developments in different forms after 1980s. The construction of a second peripheric highway around the metropolis 1989 carried development into ecologically fragile northern areas and started discussions still dominating the agenda of urban sustainability. This will be the day to cross to the asian side with roughly 40 % of the total metropolitan population, mainly a sleepers town for commuters. We will make our way to the periphery through the 'Highway Istanbul' located on a ridge, the topographic backbone of Istanbul that has functioned as an artery of capital flow since 150 years.
09:00 start from Londra hotel, possible to join 09:15 at taksim, in front of the AKM
* Macka valley: Palace security zone; attempted republican public space; venue for global networking
* Tesvikiye: A place for Sultans new entourage; republican elites’ ghetto; the hip neighbourhood
* Sisli: the district with the highest turnover for capital obtained by production of built environment
* Mecidiyeköy: the viaduct, the hub on the ridge
* Levent: from garden city to CBD
* Karanfilköy: The 'frozen' gecekondu: an introduction to the history of informal housing
* Kavacik, first exit Asia: The mushroom town at the highway junction
* Upper Beykoz: the Acar republic, with a 'private' highway
* Umraniye: from early-proletarian periphery to new urban center * Asagi Dudullu, Cekmekoy: interface of rural, informal and middle class gated settlements. * Modoko: tradefair 24/365
* Dudullu: industrial zone, planned into a water protection area
* Kozyatagi: New Istanbul under way
* Bagdat street: the highstreet of Asia
* Kadiköy: downtown Asia, harbour
possibly leisure time at Kadikoy inner town
* Crossing back by ferry
(tour includes lunch)
Fri 14.03
----------------------------------------------------------------------
09:00 - 15:30
Bustour, The 'poor' center guided by Orhan Esen
The southern and western center of Istanbul, comprising of the historical peninsula and the Golden Horn basin is obviously not a posh area as it is. The historical peninsula with its traditional neighbourhood structures (mahalles) have since early modern times been abandoned by capital and suffered from a lack of investments. Its modernization followed a different path then of the north, a more regulated one. Golden Horn and its adjacent valleys constitute a topographic and functional backbone through the heart of the metropolis. Since the early days of industrialization the area created its own urbanity 'at the backstage'.
The deindustrialization in neo-liberal terms has resulted in a harsh devaleurization in many parts of this geography. It has become a host to the slums of the metropolis, nowadays targeted by the 3rd wave of gentrification. However the area is far from homogenous: the developments in this vast area are locally quite unequal. Many neighbourhoods are marked by the presence of a rising new middle class with migration background, very eager in taking advantage of the opportunities of the bsooming metropolis. Their aggressive vertical social mobility has become a major drive for urban transformations, linked with the recent wave of globalization. A hard route indeed.
09:00 start from Buyuk Londra, possible to join @Taksim sq., AKM
* Dolapdere valley: ‘the lower Pera’
* Kasimpasa: from shipyards to kitchens
* Drive along the Golden Horn, south coast.
* Fener; legacy of early modern transformation of the old mahalle.
* Eyup; the former Fez factory.
* Outlook to the North coast of the ‘deindustrialized’ Golden Horn A new venue for culture industries ? Arsenal, the old Galata Bridge, Koc Industrial Museum, Sutluce Cultural Center, the 'Miniaturk', Santral Istanbul, ...
* Alibeykoy: The gecekondu and its transformation* Kagithane valley; Industrial valley at the backyard becomes the new 'west corridor' of the CBD
* Tour terminates at santralistanbul, an ex power plant, now serving as a center for arts and education. A project of the Bilgi University
Important notice: there will be no time for a proper lunchbreak at this tour. Please provide yourselves with snacks / drinks. upon arrival at santralistanbul late snacks can be obtained.
13:00 - 15:00
registrations for group 2 @ Buyuk Londra Hotel
16:00 - 22:00
registrations for group 2 @ santralistanbul
16:30 - 19:30
Public Panel
Views of public consultants
(for details: see public program)
19:30-20:15
Supperbreak@santral
20:15 - 22:15 INURA meeting I
Introducing the workshop
Sulukule association welcoming guests.
Taskforce coordinators briefing on their working agendas
INURA Common office announcements
Sat / Sun 15.-16.03
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Workshop at field. Individual programs to be announced by group coordinators.
Sat 15.03
----------------------------------------------------------------------
20:00 dinner at Kumkapi, Ucler restaurant
Registrations for late comers
Mon 17.03
----------------------------------------------------------------------
08:30 - 09:45
Visits to Municipalities and other relevant officials in Fatih, Beyoglu...
10:30 - 14:30
INURA meeting II
Taskforces reporting back / discussions
Towards Athens
@ TESEV / Sabanci Uni building.
Bankalar cad. 2, Minerva han. Floor 2, Karaköy
16:00- 19:30
Public evaluation meeting
@Bilgi University, Dolapdere
(for details see public program)
19:30-20:15
supperbreak@dolapdere
20:15-21:00
INURA meeting III
last words
22:00
PARTY @TİERRA bar, Beyoglu
With the participation of the Sulukule Romani Band
Tue / Wed / Thu 18.-20.03
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Excursion program: repetition for group 2
Possibly different itinerary due to presence of (1) more time and seen / experienced during the workshop. Open to wishes / to be discussed with members of group 2.
Tue 11.03.08
----------------------------------------------------------------------
First arrivals + registration
Workshop Registration desk will be available from 6 PM in the lobby of the Hotel De Grand Londres / Büyük Londra Oteli
Early arrivees will informally meet at the lobby, and go for a dinner.
Wed 12.03.08
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Soft opening (+ continuing arrivals)
09:30 - 16:30A stroll around Taksim, the civic center of Istanbul.
Guided by Orhan EsenTaksim square is the undisputed and unavoidable hub of the metropolis. Every path leads over it. All discussions and manifestations of the public being in Istanbul focuses on Taksim. One immediately has the feeling 'to know' it. Still its complex history needs a de/reconstruction, as it sums up the history of modernization of Istanbul with its successes and failures. Tour starts and ends with an outlook into 19th century Pera, into the cosmopolitan boomtown of Ottoman early modernism. History of rise, decline, and gentrification of Pera is also at the very heart of all urban disputes at present.
09:30 Meeting at Büyük Londra Hotel, lobby
* Walk from Tepebashi to Taksim via Istiklal: Boomtown Pera and its decline
* The Maksem: Early beginnings: topography and water
* The rotunda with Ataturk monument: Dedicating space to the republic
* AKM (Ataturk Cultural Center, or the Opera), a facade: The most disputed architectural issue of the metropolis: demolition and rebuild or sanitation ?
* Tarlabashi bvd: 'the operation' with consequences
* Talimhane, 'exercise place' of the military and its transformations: An ideal settlement to the republican citizen. Market for car spare parts. Semi-gated tourist zone.
* Outlook to Tarlabashi or lower pera: The neo-slum and the reconquista in planning
* Taksim barracks and its transformation to the Taksim Promenade: Demolition dedicated to the idea of 'republican public space'. Giving up the promenade, breaking the chain of public space: public space squatted by international capital, by cars and by the migrants.
* AKM within the block: Problems of urban design between republican utopia and disillusion
* Gumussuyu / Ayaspasha: Elites between regression and modernity
* Park Hotel, 'the ruin': Early neoliberal aggression, success of citizens' initiatives, recovery of capital
* Cihangir / Cukurcuma / The Algerian/French/Algerian street: The Gentrification route, uphill, downhill
* Odakule and Marmara buildings: How mayor Dalan failed to build a
16:30 - 17:00
A visit to the IMP
Istanbul Metropolitan Planning and Urban Design Center
17:30-19:30
Lecture, Orhan Esen
Recent process of transformations of the metropolis
@ caravanserai, an independent art/culture project space in Aynalicesme
continuous registration during the day for late arrivals at Buyuk Londra Hotel and / or Caravanserai
20:00
Dinner @ Tavanarasi
meeting the Istanbul ws leaders
Thu 13.03
----------------------------------------------------------------------
09:00 - 19:00
Bus tour to the northern and eastern peripheries, guided by Orhan Esen
This tour will take the group to the margins of the metropolis. The tour will mainly prevail former agricultural or forestry areas that were target of developments in different forms after 1980s. The construction of a second peripheric highway around the metropolis 1989 carried development into ecologically fragile northern areas and started discussions still dominating the agenda of urban sustainability. This will be the day to cross to the asian side with roughly 40 % of the total metropolitan population, mainly a sleepers town for commuters. We will make our way to the periphery through the 'Highway Istanbul' located on a ridge, the topographic backbone of Istanbul that has functioned as an artery of capital flow since 150 years.
09:00 start from Londra hotel, possible to join 09:15 at taksim, in front of the AKM
* Macka valley: Palace security zone; attempted republican public space; venue for global networking
* Tesvikiye: A place for Sultans new entourage; republican elites’ ghetto; the hip neighbourhood
* Sisli: the district with the highest turnover for capital obtained by production of built environment
* Mecidiyeköy: the viaduct, the hub on the ridge
* Levent: from garden city to CBD
* Karanfilköy: The 'frozen' gecekondu: an introduction to the history of informal housing
* Kavacik, first exit Asia: The mushroom town at the highway junction
* Upper Beykoz: the Acar republic, with a 'private' highway
* Umraniye: from early-proletarian periphery to new urban center * Asagi Dudullu, Cekmekoy: interface of rural, informal and middle class gated settlements. * Modoko: tradefair 24/365
* Dudullu: industrial zone, planned into a water protection area
* Kozyatagi: New Istanbul under way
* Bagdat street: the highstreet of Asia
* Kadiköy: downtown Asia, harbour
possibly leisure time at Kadikoy inner town
* Crossing back by ferry
(tour includes lunch)
Fri 14.03
----------------------------------------------------------------------
09:00 - 15:30
Bustour, The 'poor' center guided by Orhan Esen
The southern and western center of Istanbul, comprising of the historical peninsula and the Golden Horn basin is obviously not a posh area as it is. The historical peninsula with its traditional neighbourhood structures (mahalles) have since early modern times been abandoned by capital and suffered from a lack of investments. Its modernization followed a different path then of the north, a more regulated one. Golden Horn and its adjacent valleys constitute a topographic and functional backbone through the heart of the metropolis. Since the early days of industrialization the area created its own urbanity 'at the backstage'.
The deindustrialization in neo-liberal terms has resulted in a harsh devaleurization in many parts of this geography. It has become a host to the slums of the metropolis, nowadays targeted by the 3rd wave of gentrification. However the area is far from homogenous: the developments in this vast area are locally quite unequal. Many neighbourhoods are marked by the presence of a rising new middle class with migration background, very eager in taking advantage of the opportunities of the bsooming metropolis. Their aggressive vertical social mobility has become a major drive for urban transformations, linked with the recent wave of globalization. A hard route indeed.
09:00 start from Buyuk Londra, possible to join @Taksim sq., AKM
* Dolapdere valley: ‘the lower Pera’
* Kasimpasa: from shipyards to kitchens
* Drive along the Golden Horn, south coast.
* Fener; legacy of early modern transformation of the old mahalle.
* Eyup; the former Fez factory.
* Outlook to the North coast of the ‘deindustrialized’ Golden Horn A new venue for culture industries ? Arsenal, the old Galata Bridge, Koc Industrial Museum, Sutluce Cultural Center, the 'Miniaturk', Santral Istanbul, ...
* Alibeykoy: The gecekondu and its transformation* Kagithane valley; Industrial valley at the backyard becomes the new 'west corridor' of the CBD
* Tour terminates at santralistanbul, an ex power plant, now serving as a center for arts and education. A project of the Bilgi University
Important notice: there will be no time for a proper lunchbreak at this tour. Please provide yourselves with snacks / drinks. upon arrival at santralistanbul late snacks can be obtained.
13:00 - 15:00
registrations for group 2 @ Buyuk Londra Hotel
16:00 - 22:00
registrations for group 2 @ santralistanbul
16:30 - 19:30
Public Panel
Views of public consultants
(for details: see public program)
19:30-20:15
Supperbreak@santral
20:15 - 22:15 INURA meeting I
Introducing the workshop
Sulukule association welcoming guests.
Taskforce coordinators briefing on their working agendas
INURA Common office announcements
Sat / Sun 15.-16.03
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Workshop at field. Individual programs to be announced by group coordinators.
Sat 15.03
----------------------------------------------------------------------
20:00 dinner at Kumkapi, Ucler restaurant
Registrations for late comers
Mon 17.03
----------------------------------------------------------------------
08:30 - 09:45
Visits to Municipalities and other relevant officials in Fatih, Beyoglu...
10:30 - 14:30
INURA meeting II
Taskforces reporting back / discussions
Towards Athens
@ TESEV / Sabanci Uni building.
Bankalar cad. 2, Minerva han. Floor 2, Karaköy
16:00- 19:30
Public evaluation meeting
@Bilgi University, Dolapdere
(for details see public program)
19:30-20:15
supperbreak@dolapdere
20:15-21:00
INURA meeting III
last words
22:00
PARTY @TİERRA bar, Beyoglu
With the participation of the Sulukule Romani Band
Tue / Wed / Thu 18.-20.03
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Excursion program: repetition for group 2
Possibly different itinerary due to presence of (1) more time and seen / experienced during the workshop. Open to wishes / to be discussed with members of group 2.
Pre Workshop Tours
Tue 11.03.08
----------------------------------------------------------------------
First arrivals + registration
Workshop Registration desk will be available from 6 PM in the lobby of the Hotel De Grand Londres / Büyük Londra Oteli
Early arrivees will informally meet at the lobby, and go for a dinner.
Wed 12.03.08
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Soft opening (+ continuing arrivals)
09:30 - 16:30A stroll around Taksim, the civic center of Istanbul.
Guided by Orhan EsenTaksim square is the undisputed and unavoidable hub of the metropolis. Every path leads over it. All discussions and manifestations of the public being in Istanbul focuses on Taksim. One immediately has the feeling 'to know' it. Still its complex history needs a de/reconstruction, as it sums up the history of modernization of Istanbul with its successes and failures. Tour starts and ends with an outlook into 19th century Pera, into the cosmopolitan boomtown of Ottoman early modernism. History of rise, decline, and gentrification of Pera is also at the very heart of all urban disputes at present.
09:30 Meeting at Büyük Londra Hotel, lobby
* Walk from Tepebashi to Taksim via Istiklal: Boomtown Pera and its decline
* The Maksem: Early beginnings: topography and water
* The rotunda with Ataturk monument: Dedicating space to the republic
* AKM (Ataturk Cultural Center, or the Opera), a facade: The most disputed architectural issue of the metropolis: demolition and rebuild or sanitation ?
* Tarlabashi bvd: 'the operation' with consequences
* Talimhane, 'exercise place' of the military and its transformations: An ideal settlement to the republican citizen. Market for car spare parts. Semi-gated tourist zone.
* Outlook to Tarlabashi or lower pera: The neo-slum and the reconquista in planning
* Taksim barracks and its transformation to the Taksim Promenade: Demolition dedicated to the idea of 'republican public space'. Giving up the promenade, breaking the chain of public space: public space squatted by international capital, by cars and by the migrants.
* AKM within the block: Problems of urban design between republican utopia and disillusion
* Gumussuyu / Ayaspasha: Elites between regression and modernity
* Park Hotel, 'the ruin': Early neoliberal aggression, success of citizens' initiatives, recovery of capital
* Cihangir / Cukurcuma / The Algerian/French/Algerian street: The Gentrification route, uphill, downhill
* Odakule and Marmara buildings: How mayor Dalan failed to build a
16:30 - 17:00
A visit to the IMP
Istanbul Metropolitan Planning and Urban Design Center
17:30-19:30
Lecture, Orhan Esen
Recent process of transformations of the metropolis
@ caravanserai, an independent art/culture project space in Aynalicesme
continuous registration during the day for late arrivals at Buyuk Londra Hotel and / or Caravanserai
20:00
Dinner @ Tavanarasi
meeting the Istanbul ws leaders
Thu 13.03
----------------------------------------------------------------------
09:00 - 19:00
Bus tour to the northern and eastern peripheries, guided by Orhan Esen
This tour will take the group to the margins of the metropolis. The tour will mainly prevail former agricultural or forestry areas that were target of developments in different forms after 1980s. The construction of a second peripheric highway around the metropolis 1989 carried development into ecologically fragile northern areas and started discussions still dominating the agenda of urban sustainability. This will be the day to cross to the asian side with roughly 40 % of the total metropolitan population, mainly a sleepers town for commuters. We will make our way to the periphery through the 'Highway Istanbul' located on a ridge, the topographic backbone of Istanbul that has functioned as an artery of capital flow since 150 years.
09:00 start from Londra hotel, possible to join 09:15 at taksim, in front of the AKM
* Macka valley: Palace security zone; attempted republican public space; venue for global networking
* Tesvikiye: A place for Sultans new entourage; republican elites’ ghetto; the hip neighbourhood
* Sisli: the district with the highest turnover for capital obtained by production of built environment
* Mecidiyeköy: the viaduct, the hub on the ridge
* Levent: from garden city to CBD
* Karanfilköy: The 'frozen' gecekondu: an introduction to the history of informal housing
* Kavacik, first exit Asia: The mushroom town at the highway junction
* Upper Beykoz: the Acar republic, with a 'private' highway
* Umraniye: from early-proletarian periphery to new urban center * Asagi Dudullu, Cekmekoy: interface of rural, informal and middle class gated settlements. * Modoko: tradefair 24/365
* Dudullu: industrial zone, planned into a water protection area
* Kozyatagi: New Istanbul under way
* Bagdat street: the highstreet of Asia
* Kadiköy: downtown Asia, harbour
possibly leisure time at Kadikoy inner town
* Crossing back by ferry
(tour includes lunch)
Fri 14.03
----------------------------------------------------------------------
09:00 - 15:30
Bustour, The 'poor' center guided by Orhan Esen
The southern and western center of Istanbul, comprising of the historical peninsula and the Golden Horn basin is obviously not a posh area as it is. The historical peninsula with its traditional neighbourhood structures (mahalles) have since early modern times been abandoned by capital and suffered from a lack of investments. Its modernization followed a different path then of the north, a more regulated one. Golden Horn and its adjacent valleys constitute a topographic and functional backbone through the heart of the metropolis. Since the early days of industrialization the area created its own urbanity 'at the backstage'.
The deindustrialization in neo-liberal terms has resulted in a harsh devaleurization in many parts of this geography. It has become a host to the slums of the metropolis, nowadays targeted by the 3rd wave of gentrification. However the area is far from homogenous: the developments in this vast area are locally quite unequal. Many neighbourhoods are marked by the presence of a rising new middle class with migration background, very eager in taking advantage of the opportunities of the bsooming metropolis. Their aggressive vertical social mobility has become a major drive for urban transformations, linked with the recent wave of globalization. A hard route indeed.
09:00 start from Buyuk Londra, possible to join @Taksim sq., AKM
* Dolapdere valley: ‘the lower Pera’
* Kasimpasa: from shipyards to kitchens
* Drive along the Golden Horn, south coast.
* Fener; legacy of early modern transformation of the old mahalle.
* Eyup; the former Fez factory.
* Outlook to the North coast of the ‘deindustrialized’ Golden Horn A new venue for culture industries ? Arsenal, the old Galata Bridge, Koc Industrial Museum, Sutluce Cultural Center, the 'Miniaturk', Santral Istanbul, ...
* Alibeykoy: The gecekondu and its transformation* Kagithane valley; Industrial valley at the backyard becomes the new 'west corridor' of the CBD
* Tour terminates at santralistanbul, an ex power plant, now serving as a center for arts and education. A project of the Bilgi University
Important notice: there will be no time for a proper lunchbreak at this tour. Please provide yourselves with snacks / drinks. upon arrival at santralistanbul late snacks can be obtained.
13:00 - 15:00
registrations for group 2 @ Buyuk Londra Hotel
16:00 - 22:00
registrations for group 2 @ santralistanbul
16:30 - 19:30
Public Panel
Views of public consultants
(for details: see public program)
19:30-20:15
Supperbreak@santral
20:15 - 22:15 INURA meeting I
Introducing the workshop
Sulukule association welcoming guests.
Taskforce coordinators briefing on their working agendas
INURA Common office announcements
Sat / Sun 15.-16.03
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Workshop at field. Individual programs to be announced by group coordinators.
Sat 15.03
----------------------------------------------------------------------
20:00 dinner at Kumkapi, Ucler restaurant
Registrations for late comers
Mon 17.03
----------------------------------------------------------------------
08:30 - 09:45
Visits to Municipalities and other relevant officials in Fatih, Beyoglu...
10:30 - 14:30
INURA meeting II
Taskforces reporting back / discussions
Towards Athens
@ TESEV / Sabanci Uni building.
Bankalar cad. 2, Minerva han. Floor 2, Karaköy
16:00- 19:30
Public evaluation meeting
@Bilgi University, Dolapdere
(for details see public program)
19:30-20:15
supperbreak@dolapdere
20:15-21:00
INURA meeting III
last words
22:00
PARTY @TİERRA bar, Beyoglu
With the participation of the Sulukule Romani Band
Tue / Wed / Thu 18.-20.03
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Excursion program: repetition for group 2
Possibly different itinerary due to presence of (1) more time and seen / experienced during the workshop. Open to wishes / to be discussed with members of group 2.
Tue 11.03.08
----------------------------------------------------------------------
First arrivals + registration
Workshop Registration desk will be available from 6 PM in the lobby of the Hotel De Grand Londres / Büyük Londra Oteli
Early arrivees will informally meet at the lobby, and go for a dinner.
Wed 12.03.08
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Soft opening (+ continuing arrivals)
09:30 - 16:30A stroll around Taksim, the civic center of Istanbul.
Guided by Orhan EsenTaksim square is the undisputed and unavoidable hub of the metropolis. Every path leads over it. All discussions and manifestations of the public being in Istanbul focuses on Taksim. One immediately has the feeling 'to know' it. Still its complex history needs a de/reconstruction, as it sums up the history of modernization of Istanbul with its successes and failures. Tour starts and ends with an outlook into 19th century Pera, into the cosmopolitan boomtown of Ottoman early modernism. History of rise, decline, and gentrification of Pera is also at the very heart of all urban disputes at present.
09:30 Meeting at Büyük Londra Hotel, lobby
* Walk from Tepebashi to Taksim via Istiklal: Boomtown Pera and its decline
* The Maksem: Early beginnings: topography and water
* The rotunda with Ataturk monument: Dedicating space to the republic
* AKM (Ataturk Cultural Center, or the Opera), a facade: The most disputed architectural issue of the metropolis: demolition and rebuild or sanitation ?
* Tarlabashi bvd: 'the operation' with consequences
* Talimhane, 'exercise place' of the military and its transformations: An ideal settlement to the republican citizen. Market for car spare parts. Semi-gated tourist zone.
* Outlook to Tarlabashi or lower pera: The neo-slum and the reconquista in planning
* Taksim barracks and its transformation to the Taksim Promenade: Demolition dedicated to the idea of 'republican public space'. Giving up the promenade, breaking the chain of public space: public space squatted by international capital, by cars and by the migrants.
* AKM within the block: Problems of urban design between republican utopia and disillusion
* Gumussuyu / Ayaspasha: Elites between regression and modernity
* Park Hotel, 'the ruin': Early neoliberal aggression, success of citizens' initiatives, recovery of capital
* Cihangir / Cukurcuma / The Algerian/French/Algerian street: The Gentrification route, uphill, downhill
* Odakule and Marmara buildings: How mayor Dalan failed to build a
16:30 - 17:00
A visit to the IMP
Istanbul Metropolitan Planning and Urban Design Center
17:30-19:30
Lecture, Orhan Esen
Recent process of transformations of the metropolis
@ caravanserai, an independent art/culture project space in Aynalicesme
continuous registration during the day for late arrivals at Buyuk Londra Hotel and / or Caravanserai
20:00
Dinner @ Tavanarasi
meeting the Istanbul ws leaders
Thu 13.03
----------------------------------------------------------------------
09:00 - 19:00
Bus tour to the northern and eastern peripheries, guided by Orhan Esen
This tour will take the group to the margins of the metropolis. The tour will mainly prevail former agricultural or forestry areas that were target of developments in different forms after 1980s. The construction of a second peripheric highway around the metropolis 1989 carried development into ecologically fragile northern areas and started discussions still dominating the agenda of urban sustainability. This will be the day to cross to the asian side with roughly 40 % of the total metropolitan population, mainly a sleepers town for commuters. We will make our way to the periphery through the 'Highway Istanbul' located on a ridge, the topographic backbone of Istanbul that has functioned as an artery of capital flow since 150 years.
09:00 start from Londra hotel, possible to join 09:15 at taksim, in front of the AKM
* Macka valley: Palace security zone; attempted republican public space; venue for global networking
* Tesvikiye: A place for Sultans new entourage; republican elites’ ghetto; the hip neighbourhood
* Sisli: the district with the highest turnover for capital obtained by production of built environment
* Mecidiyeköy: the viaduct, the hub on the ridge
* Levent: from garden city to CBD
* Karanfilköy: The 'frozen' gecekondu: an introduction to the history of informal housing
* Kavacik, first exit Asia: The mushroom town at the highway junction
* Upper Beykoz: the Acar republic, with a 'private' highway
* Umraniye: from early-proletarian periphery to new urban center * Asagi Dudullu, Cekmekoy: interface of rural, informal and middle class gated settlements. * Modoko: tradefair 24/365
* Dudullu: industrial zone, planned into a water protection area
* Kozyatagi: New Istanbul under way
* Bagdat street: the highstreet of Asia
* Kadiköy: downtown Asia, harbour
possibly leisure time at Kadikoy inner town
* Crossing back by ferry
(tour includes lunch)
Fri 14.03
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09:00 - 15:30
Bustour, The 'poor' center guided by Orhan Esen
The southern and western center of Istanbul, comprising of the historical peninsula and the Golden Horn basin is obviously not a posh area as it is. The historical peninsula with its traditional neighbourhood structures (mahalles) have since early modern times been abandoned by capital and suffered from a lack of investments. Its modernization followed a different path then of the north, a more regulated one. Golden Horn and its adjacent valleys constitute a topographic and functional backbone through the heart of the metropolis. Since the early days of industrialization the area created its own urbanity 'at the backstage'.
The deindustrialization in neo-liberal terms has resulted in a harsh devaleurization in many parts of this geography. It has become a host to the slums of the metropolis, nowadays targeted by the 3rd wave of gentrification. However the area is far from homogenous: the developments in this vast area are locally quite unequal. Many neighbourhoods are marked by the presence of a rising new middle class with migration background, very eager in taking advantage of the opportunities of the bsooming metropolis. Their aggressive vertical social mobility has become a major drive for urban transformations, linked with the recent wave of globalization. A hard route indeed.
09:00 start from Buyuk Londra, possible to join @Taksim sq., AKM
* Dolapdere valley: ‘the lower Pera’
* Kasimpasa: from shipyards to kitchens
* Drive along the Golden Horn, south coast.
* Fener; legacy of early modern transformation of the old mahalle.
* Eyup; the former Fez factory.
* Outlook to the North coast of the ‘deindustrialized’ Golden Horn A new venue for culture industries ? Arsenal, the old Galata Bridge, Koc Industrial Museum, Sutluce Cultural Center, the 'Miniaturk', Santral Istanbul, ...
* Alibeykoy: The gecekondu and its transformation* Kagithane valley; Industrial valley at the backyard becomes the new 'west corridor' of the CBD
* Tour terminates at santralistanbul, an ex power plant, now serving as a center for arts and education. A project of the Bilgi University
Important notice: there will be no time for a proper lunchbreak at this tour. Please provide yourselves with snacks / drinks. upon arrival at santralistanbul late snacks can be obtained.
13:00 - 15:00
registrations for group 2 @ Buyuk Londra Hotel
16:00 - 22:00
registrations for group 2 @ santralistanbul
16:30 - 19:30
Public Panel
Views of public consultants
(for details: see public program)
19:30-20:15
Supperbreak@santral
20:15 - 22:15 INURA meeting I
Introducing the workshop
Sulukule association welcoming guests.
Taskforce coordinators briefing on their working agendas
INURA Common office announcements
Sat / Sun 15.-16.03
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Workshop at field. Individual programs to be announced by group coordinators.
Sat 15.03
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20:00 dinner at Kumkapi, Ucler restaurant
Registrations for late comers
Mon 17.03
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08:30 - 09:45
Visits to Municipalities and other relevant officials in Fatih, Beyoglu...
10:30 - 14:30
INURA meeting II
Taskforces reporting back / discussions
Towards Athens
@ TESEV / Sabanci Uni building.
Bankalar cad. 2, Minerva han. Floor 2, Karaköy
16:00- 19:30
Public evaluation meeting
@Bilgi University, Dolapdere
(for details see public program)
19:30-20:15
supperbreak@dolapdere
20:15-21:00
INURA meeting III
last words
22:00
PARTY @TİERRA bar, Beyoglu
With the participation of the Sulukule Romani Band
Tue / Wed / Thu 18.-20.03
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Excursion program: repetition for group 2
Possibly different itinerary due to presence of (1) more time and seen / experienced during the workshop. Open to wishes / to be discussed with members of group 2.
Arrival Information
D. Weather
At this moment (Sunday 9th March) it is quite spring-like and sunny, with rather chilly evenings. However, don't trust march ! Severe comebacks of winter with unpleasant cold rain and icy/snowy storms are not unusual at this time of the year.
Arrival Information
C. Money
Please obtain some cash directly at arrival from any ATM machine. All international cards are accepted. Most widespread are Maestro cards (Eurocheque).
Using credit cards is very common and widespread, almost everywhere, also for small amounts. (Mastercard's and Visa's)
If you happen to bring cash with you, you get best rates in Change offices in town.
However, time for any touristic activity or shopping is not planned ! We strictly recommend using another visit for this purpose :)
Arrival Information
B. Registration and meeting the first time
INURA registration desk will be open in the lobby of Büyük Londra hotel on Tuesday March 11, from 6-8 PM, and on Wednesday at arrival times of the participants. Someone will be there to facilitate you to catch up with the group.
Please also follow your personal correspondence on this matter.
In case of doubt please contact
or troubleshoot as indicated above after arriving in
On Tuesday evening, the early arrivers will meet each other in the lobby. Latecomers will be picked up on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday individually and forwarded to the group. Group leaders will join at least once between Tuesday and Thursday at dinners. Second party meets altogether first time at Santral Istanbul.
Several participants still owe some money to the organizing committee: Please note that Registration will only be possible upon balance payment.
We often miss your bank transfer fees; sometimes there are some small differences. In few cases larger amounts, like for accommodation, are missing.
Please provide these amounts upon arrival in cash (EUR or TRY at above rate) for your registration. Please notice that no cards accepted for this purpose.
Some of you need to get refunded which will also happend at registration.
Arrival Information
A. How to get to Taksim, to the Büyük Londra Hotel and to Santral Istanbul
Step 1 How to get to Taksim
Step 2 How to get to The Buyuk Londra hotel: which is the main meeting point for most occasions as well.
Step 3 How to get to Santral Istanbul / for the public panel on friday: For group 2 only. First group is on tour anyway, which terminates at Santral.
Step 4 Troubleshooting: Just in case of emergencies
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1. How to get to Taksim
1.1. Arrivals from Sabiha Gökcen airport (Asian side)
From Sabiha Gökcen it is easiest to take the public buses (only at day time) or private buses of Havas company (also at night) leaving from the exit of the arrival terminal. The journey takes around 45 -90 min. and costs 9 Turkish Liras (if you do not have Turkish Liras yet you can pay also with 5 Euros).
For city buses you need to buy a ticket beforehand (fare like 80 - 90 cents, obtainable as 5 magnetic tickets in block).
Please note: At night the Havas bus goes directly to Taksim square. At day times all buses terminate in 4. Levent (read 'dirt' levent). Here you will have access to the Levent Metro station to get to Taksim square (terminal station) by underground. Take the Taksim exit (not: Taksim Gezi).
If you do not want to take the Metro you can also take a bus or a taxi from Levent directly to the hotel (costs: some 20 Liras, 30-90 minutes for 6 kms compared to 10 minutes by tube).
1.2. From
From
Public buses from
The Metro is very easy to find, but getting to Taksim per tube is only recommendable if you have plenty of time (about 80 minutes, worth at rush hour only).
1.Take metro to Aksaray 2. change in Zeytinburnu to tram to Kabatas 3. arrive at the terminal station Kabatas 4. change in Kabatas to funicular -underground cablecar- to Taksim.
Taxis to Taksim area at daytime cost about 30 - 35 liras (at night 50 % more). Unless they drive different highway routes !
Meters are usual. Don’t accept if they refuse opening a taximeter and try to bargain. Make clear that this is (above) what you pay. He will take the shortest way:) After midnight there is no bus or tube service. You have to take a taxi.
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2. How to get from Taxim square to Büyük Londra Hotel
From Taksim Square the easiest way is to take a taxi to the Hotel Büyük Londra. If the taxi driver does not know this hotel he will know Odakule building which is a well known office tower.
Walk from Taksim sq: (10-15 minutes) go into
In any case, here again the address of the hotel: just take a print.
Grand Hotel de Londres / Buyuk Londra Oteli
Mesrutiyet Caddesi. No: 117
80050 Beyoglu Istanbul
Under this link you also find the hotel’s own directions and maps (which are advisable to have a brief look at beforehand):
http://www.londrahotel.net/map.php?dil=eng
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3. How to get to Santral Istanbul
Those who arrive in town in time should first go to Taksim square. The shuttle buses to Santral Istanbul depart at the front of the
Those who arrive on Friday, but would not make it to Taksim until 3 o clock PM, should directly take a taxi to Santral Istanbul campus of
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4. Troubleshooting
Everyone having trouble at arrivals or at Taksim square on Friday, or just getting confused, should contact Sebastian (+ 90 (0) 537 401 05 18) or Banu (+ 90 (0) 536 568 91 96) per mobile phone, unless indicated for yourself otherwise per private correspondence.
Banu Çicek Tulu
4th year student at Urban and Regional Planning, Architecture Faculty,Yildiz Technical University.Cicek is actively involved in urban,architecture and contemporar art projects.www.kayitdisi.org, banuct@gmail.com
Aslı Kıyak İngin
architect, designer and activist
She has graduated from Mimar Sinan University as an architect. She has post graduated from Istanbul Technical University “Developing a method for the analysis of formal and spatial structure of traditional cities: The Example of Ayvalık” and She has graduated Design Culture and Management Certificated Program in Istanbul Bilgi University. She works as a designer and design manager at The Celik Dizayn Lighting Company in Istanbul. She is currently vise president of Istanbul branch of Industrial Designers Society of Turkey. She is a member of the directors of board of Human Settlement Association.
She is involved several projects in different fields in city, architecture, design, art and production. “Made in Şişhane” is one of her latest projects about Galata-Şişhane, main and oldest lighting district of Istanbul. Made in Sishane is an alternative approach for city, design, creativity and small scale manufacturing. The works of designers, architects and artists who have shown their creativity mainly by using the ateliers and the network in the Galata-Şişhane region have been exhibited. For each exhibited work, the work’s production process within the region, its story and the routes followed were also explained on big maps, to show the unique network of the region.
She is mainly interested in to investigate the relation and interaction between context, space and human with interdisciplinary field. She is the one of the coordinators of 40 Days and 40 Nights Sulukule Events and established Sulukule Platform.
Aysim Türkmen
Aysim Türkmen
*Born in Istanbul in 1973.
*Urban anthropologist and documentary film director.
*M.A. in Near Eastern Studies at New York University (1998-2000).
*She directed the documentary films, “Kapital-ist-anbul” (co-directed with Erkin Peprek, 13min.) “Galata Tower Street, No:23” (39min.)
*She is giving urban anthropology courses at Yildiz University Arts Faculty.
*She is making the radio program, “Metropolitika” with Korhan Gümüş at Açık Radyo.
Hamdi Gargın
Hamdi Gargin is responsible of the "Urban Observatory of Istanbul" in the French Institute of Anatolian Studies (http://www.ifea.istanbul.net). After a degree in Political Science (ULB-Brussels) and a Master in European Studies (Bilgi-Istanbul), he works on "municipal administrations and the AKP", as PhD candidate at "Centre d'étude de la vie politique" (http://dev.ulb.ac.be/cevipol/) at the University of Brussels.
Tolga İslam
Tolga Islam is a research assistant and PhD Student in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul. He has studied the gentrification process in the Galata neighborhood of Istanbul in his master thesis and is currently studying state-led gentrification in Istanbul. He has presented a number of papers about the gentrification processes taking place in Istanbul. He has coedited the book "Istanbul'da Soylulaştirma: Eski Kentin Yeni Sahipleri [Gentrification in Istanbul: The New Owners of the the Old City]" (2006, Bilgi University Publications) and has contributed the book "Gentrification in a Global Context: The new urban colonialism" (2005, Routledge) with a chapter.
Orhan Esen
Orhan Esen, native to Istanbul, studied social and economic history at the Bosporus University, and history of art and architecture in Vienna. He is mainly involved with the rapid urban development in Istanbul and its social, political and ecological outcomes as an activist, researcher and writer.As a freelancer he supports academic, civic, media and corporate bodies; compiling surveys and researches; rendering lectures, organizing workshops, seminars and reportages; conceptualizing and guiding study tours, field trips and excursions.
His civic involvements comprise of political networking, writing, publishing, lecturing and performing at local and international fora, media and public space.
He has co-edited the book 'Istanbul: Self Service City' (b_booksz, 2005, 2007) about the making of the megapolis through informality, respectively in periods of nationally and globally determined economies.
Ferzan Aydın
Master student at the Architectural Design Program, Architecture Faculty-ITU, involved in urban and architectural projects. ferzanaydin@gmail.com
Pelin Tan
Sociologist/art historian. Research assistant and Phd student at the Institute of Social Sciences, Architecture Faculty-ITU.Works on the concept of locality, micro-politics in spatial context and socially-engaged art practices.http://www.tanpelin.blogspot.com/, pelintan@gmail.com
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