VIRTUAL Barcelona
Abstract
Tourism-led re-generation projects in the branding race of cities have found a place in many studies since the 1980s. Simultaneously, human-induced environmental crises have brought eco-friendly architecture and urban discourse to the agenda. Accordingly, a balance between environmentalist concepts and investments promoting urban vitality is presented as ‘sustainable’ projects. Istanbul as one of the mega cities, has maintained its cultural and touristic vitality in accordance with its cultural diversity and vibrance throughout its urban history. However, in the presentation of this vitality through urban regeneration projects, determining environmental commons that have been carried by the architectural heritage as well as the intangible heritage which define urban landscape might be disregarded. This study aims to address the impacts of tourism-led re-generation brands on environmental culture within a historiographic approach and extract the changes in the local political ecology through the case of Beyoğlu Culture Route. It examines the role of planners and architects in transforming the environmental values. The correlation of ecological, social, and spatial unity is brought into discussion with global implications within the set conceptual frame and with a focus on territoriality of impacts in context of the transforming legal frames on flexed moral values on environment.
Eser Yağçı – Held her bachelor’s degree on Architecture in 2002, M. Arch in 2005 and Ph.D. in 2013, the Assist.Prof.Dr. title in 2014 at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Architecture where she currently is the coordinator of the Environmental Analysis and Control Subdivision. Her core subjects are Inclusive Environmental Design, Environmental Psychology and Conservation Theories. She was assigned to the Environmental Impact Assessment Committee of the Chamber of Architects of Turkey Istanbul Metropolitan Branch between 2014-2022.
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Wednesday 17th July, 2024