PERSPECTIVES IN URBAN SPACE. Understanding Urban Space. Structural Frameworks of Urban Space. People in the City. THE MAKING OF URBAN SPACE. Urban Design Process. Production of the Built Environment. Regulating Urban Form. Images of Perfection. Design of Urban Space. Bibliography. Index.

Design of urban space : an inquiry into a socio-spatial process / Ali Madanipour

A review of recent studies on sustainable urban renewal

Revitalising Historic Urban Quarters

This paper presents a systematic and complete overview of the scientific literature in the field of place marketing and place branding research. A total of 1172 articles published between 1976 and 2016 in 98 different journals were analyzed and meticulously classified into categories and subcategories according to disciplinary approach, method used and perspective adopted. This literature review thus provides a detailed overview of the state of the art and reveals various trends and developments in this emerging field of study. Among other things, it demonstrates that the field suffers from a lack of conceptual clarity, diverging definitions and a weak theoretical foundation, which means it addresses a very broad range of research topics. In addition, the field lacks empirical evidence and explanatory articles, meaning that the numerous hypotheses concerning the effects of place marketing activities on attractiveness remain unsubstantiated. The review also underscores the literature’s lack of interest in the political and institutional contexts of places, although this information is crucial in terms of public management. Moreover, this work notes that the rhetoric of consultants is given pride of place, with the publication of numerous prescriptive articles focused on sharing best practices. Finally, this study notes the existence of a significant number of critical articles.

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Place marketing and place branding: A systematic (and tentatively exhaustive) literature review

Knowledge-based urban development (KBUD) has become a popular pursuit for cities, especially from the developing countries, to fast track the catching up process with their counterparts in developed nations Nevertheless, for these cities the KBUD progress is daunting and full of challenges The authors aim to shed light on the major KBUD challenges of emerging local economies by undertaking an in-depth empirical investigation in one such city They scrutinize the prospects and constraints of Istanbul in her KBUD journey through comparative performance and policy context analyses The findings reveal invaluable insights, not only for Istanbul to reshape the policy context and align development with contemporary KBUD better, but also for other emerging local economies to learn from these experiences

Dubaization of Istanbul: Insights from the Knowledge-Based Urban Development Journey of an Emerging Local Economy

Challenges and conflicts in achieving sustainable communities in historic neighbourhoods of Istanbul

Despite the recent rising interest in sustainability and community-related issues among urban regeneration policy-makers, it is still questionable how far the recent regeneration efforts in historic housing areas achieve a balance between the community needs and conservation policies. To answer this question, this article explores the interplay between conservation, community needs and sustainability in the context of Turkey, focusing on Istanbul. It premises on the assumption that finding the balance between the needs, aspirations and concerns of local communities and the conservation of the built environments will lead to more equitable and sustainable solutions to the problems Istanbul historic quarters are facing. The article explains the interrelation between sustainability, community needs and conservation, investigates whether these notions have been integrated into the urban conservation policy agenda of Turkey or not and then examines the assumption above by focusing on the recent regeneration st...

Searching for a Balance Between Community Needs and Conservation Policies in Historic Neighbourhoods of Istanbul

Less public than before? Public space improvement in Newcastle city centre

This paper aims to explore the success of the recent regeneration efforts in building sustainable communities in historic housing areas of Istanbul that have suffered from growing problems of urban deprivation and poverty. It explains the interplay between conservation, community needs and sustainability, based on the assumption that finding a balance between the needs, aspirations and concerns of local communities and the conservation of the built environments will lead to the creation of more equitable and sustainable communities in Istanbul's historic quarters. After investigating the Turkish urban conservation policy agenda, and the recent changes in the urban and socio-spatial structure of Istanbul, it examines the European Union-funded regeneration initiative of Fener and Balat, a declining neighbourhood in the Historic Peninsula. Debating the strengths and weaknesses of the community-based and participatory programme, the paper attempts to give clues for future regeneration initiatives to develop sustainable community policies in the historic neighbourhoods of Istanbul.

Developing sustainable communities in historic neighbourhoods of istanbul

This research, focusing on the issue of place identity in historic landscapes of contemporary cities, explores the current identity problem of a historic urban park in Ankara, Genclik Park, within contextual and evolutionary perspectives. After setting a theoretical framework on the identity of urban space, it analyses systemically the historically specific intersections between Genclik Park’s identity and the spatial, political, economic and historical contexts of Turkey and Ankara over the past 90 years. It depicts how the Park’s identity has been (re)configured (or has evolved) through different temporalities looking at three metrics of urban identity. It shows that place identity is evolutionary and contextual in character within a space-time continuum.

Müge Akkar Ercan

Papers

Challenges and conflicts in achieving sustainable communities in historic neighbourhoods of Istanbul

Searching for a Balance Between Community Needs and Conservation Policies in Historic Neighbourhoods of Istanbul

Less public than before? Public space improvement in Newcastle city centre

Developing sustainable communities in historic neighbourhoods of istanbul

‘Evolving’ or ‘lost’ identity of a historic public space? The tale of Gençlik Park in Ankara