İstanbul Ansiklopedisi: Reşad Ekrem Koçu

"A joint project initiated by Salt and Kadir Has University in 2018, istanbulansiklopedisi.org offers access to the printed volumes of Reşad Ekrem Koçu’s Istanbul Encyclopedia and thousands of related documents. It brings together over 40,000 digitized documents, incorporating published encyclopedia articles and a body of archival material that forms the basis for subsequent volumes. Enabling an in-depth analysis of the archive, the online platform provides a basis to trace and explore the visual and textual connections between various sources. 

Blending common facts with unusual accounts, the Istanbul Encyclopedia —and the relevance of the knowledge it entails— is worthy of further scrutiny."

URL: https://istanbulansiklopedisi.org/  

New OA book: Proposals for the Transformation of Istanbul's Unkapanı Flour Mill

Title: Industrial Heritage for Sustainable Cities: Proposals for the Transformation of Istanbul's Unkapanı Flour Mill. 

Authors: Gerritsen, Fokke, Özçakır, Özgün, Arslan, Aysel, Kayasü, Sena, Yurdagül, Sedef.

Published: Istanbul: Netherlands Institute in Turkey, 2023

ISBN : 9786057259004

"What are the ways that industrial heritage places are transformed, both considering their tangible and intangible values as well as their potential to achieve urban inclusivity, sustainability, circularity as well as public engagement?

The present book is one of the outcomes of the inaugural program of NIT Urban Heritage Lab. Following an introduction on the course, its scope and aims, it showcases the four proposals that the participants of the Industrial Heritage for Sustainable Cities Course developed for the transformation of the Unkapanı Flour Mill. The proposals are original, thought-provoking and inspirational, while at the same time based on solid multi-disciplinary, collaborative work. So, they are perfect demonstrations of what NIT Urban Heritage Lab tries to achieve.

Cite as:

Gerritsen, Fokke, Özçakır, Özgün, Arslan, Aysel, Kayasü, Sena, Yurdagül, Sedef. (2023). Industrial Heritage for Sustainable Cities: Proposals for the Transformation of Istanbul's Unkapanı Flour Mill. Istanbul: Netherlands Institute in Turkey.



Table of Contents

Introducing NIT Urban Heritage Lab and the Industrial Heritage for Sustainable Cities Program
Fokke Gerritsen

Industrial Heritage for Sustainable Cities: Course Aims and Overview
Özgün Özçakır, Fokke Gerritsen, Aysel Arslan

Once the Belly of Istanbul: Unkapanı as a Food Provisioning Center
Namık Günay Erkal

A Plan for the Transformation of Unkapanı Mill into an Educational Complex
Mehmet Alper


Project Proposals

Unkapanı Community Garden: By the Community, for the Community
Yelyzaveta Nesterova, Batoul Mesdaghi, Tijana Veljkovic, Gülhayat Kılcı, Yonca Atabay

Adaptive Transformation of the Mill through Urban Promenade: Monologue, Dialogue, Travelogue
Miraç Ayça Türkfiliz, Mustafa Can Terzi, Seda Naniç, Tuğçe Halıcı, Yihan Li

Unkapanı Beyond the Walls: Regeneration of Urban Space Through the Recovery of Post-Industrial Places
Cem Balcan, Elif Leblebici, Nurşah Atamtürk, Tuğçe Türk, Yanming Wu

Unkapanı Flour Mill: An Urban Catalyzer
Aybüke Safi, Yasemin Çakır, Meriç Altıntaş Kaptan, Merve Torlak, Nazlı Arslan, Sena Kayasü, Taiwo Samuel Orisade

Reflections on Project Proposals

A Multidisciplinary Studio on the Sustainability of Urban Industrial Heritage
Nilüfer Baturayoğlu Yöney

Recovering Unkapanı for a Different Future: Industrial Heritage for Sustainable Cities
Harry Reddick"

Industrial Heritage for Sustainable Cities
2023 | NIT - Urban Heritage Lab Proposals for the Transformation of Istanbul's Unkapanı Flour Mill ISBN 13: 978-605-72590-0-4Aysel Arslan, Fokke Gerritsen, Sena Kayasü, Özgün Özçakır, Sedef Yurdagül. 

A Bibliography of Armistice-Era Istanbul, 1918–1923, BIAA

 

"A Bibliography of Armistice-Era Istanbul, 1918–1923 

With more than 1400 primary and secondary sources, this bibliography is the first comprehensive guide for the study of Istanbul during its occupation by British, French and Italian forces from 1918 to 1923. The book contributes to efforts to restore to prominence the history of the city during these years, which has been largely ignored by historians in the former occupying powers, and often marginalised in the Anatolia-focused history of the War of Independence in Turkey. Prefaced by an essay outlining changing public and academic perspectives on the occupied city, the bibliography features materials organised into seven categories including archives, contemporary publications, memoirs, articles, books, book chapters and theses. Compiled with the collaboration of diverse specialists in the history of the many resident communities of late Ottoman Istanbul, the bibliography provides guidance to sources available in a variety of languages, including Turkish, Armenian, Greek, Ladino, Arabic, French, Italian, English and Russian. This bibliography is an essential tool and reference work for historians, social scientists, and all those interested in modern Istanbul and its place within Turkish, Middle Eastern, European and imperial history. As an increasingly interested public mark the centenaries of events connected to the occupation and evacuation of the city, the book aims to facilitate further transnational and transcommunal work on this crucial period."

British Institute at Ankara, https://biaa.ac.uk/publication/open-access-electronic-publications/bib-armistice-era-istanbul/.

Open Access Maps: Istanbul Urban Database

Istanbul Urban Database

"Istanbul Urban Database is an accessible, interactive mapping platform for historians, architects, city planners and other researchers to examine and contribute to the collective memory of Istanbul. This project is a sustainable platform that blends a wide range of historical data, and is the most comprehensive online archive of Istanbul’s urban history.

The project is an ongoing digital humanities project developed by Nil Tuzcu, a researcher at MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative. The project is being developed in collaboration with Professor Sibel Bozdogan, Gul Nese Dogusan Alexander, and Marysol Rivas Brito.

The platform presents a series of historical maps, aerial imagery, historical photos, geographical features like historical transportation routes, as well as many points of interest such as the historical beaches of Istanbul. Users can selectively examine historical maps or superimpose multiple maps with adjustable transparency values, and overlay georeferenced features to the base maps. The project also provides a tool for side-by-side comparison of two maps from different times, allowing users to examine in detail the changes took place over time. "