11 research outputs found
CULTURAL HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND CULTURE-LED TOURISM CONFLICT WITHIN THE HISTORIC SITE IN BEYOĞLU, ISTANBUL
No full textIn the metropolitan city of Istanbul, the conservation of historic sites that are under the influence of tourism pressure is one of the central challenges of management planning. This study aims to perform a critical review, within the framework of the current conservation legislation of Turkey and ICOMOS decisions, of the conservation master plan prepared for Beyoğlu (Istanbul), particularly focusing on conflicts between cultural heritage conservation and culture-led tourism decisions. The review starts out with an analysis of Beyoğlu district in Istanbul, based on the technical expertise reports drawn from the administrative court decisions, followed by a discussion of the results. The study includes four main parts, with the first part discussing and then conceptualizing the cultural heritage conservation and culture-led tourism, the second part examining the definition of the conservation site and the conservation master plan process, the third part addressing the analysis and evaluation of the site within the context of cultural heritage, and the final part discussing the findings and drawing conclusions. Some of the findings derived from the evaluations conducted on the Beyoğlu conservation master plan are given: (a) due to the lack of a holistic planning approach, the conservation master plan boundaries fail to incorporate other historic areas in the same district; (b) the decision to reconstruct former historic buildings damages the present use of public space; (c) car-oriented transport designs increase vehicle traffic in the historic centre of the city; and (d) the existing cultural structure is undergoing “touristification” in the form of culture-led tourism development, and cultural functions are being rapidly “commercialized”. The results of the study show that the Beyoğlu (Istanbul) conservation master plan produces negative effects on the tangible and intangible heritage, publicness, public participation, culture-led tourism, and culture-led urban regeneration
İSTANBUL METROPOLİTEN ALANI’NDA 1980 SONRASI KENTSEL GELİŞME DİNAMİKLERİ VE İDARİ COĞRAFYADA SINIR DEĞİŞİKLİKLERİ
No full text1980’liyıllardan bu yana İstanbul Metropoliten Alanı’ndaki mekânsal değişim; 1980,1995, 2006 ve 2009 yıllarında onaylanan üst ölçekli mekânsal planlamaçalışmaları ile kontrol altına alınmaya çalışılmaktadır. Mekânsal planlamaçalışmaları bir yandan devam ederken, diğer yandan metropoliten alandaki idariyönetim yapısında da önemli değişimler olmaktadır. 1984-2004 yılları arasında3030 sayılı Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kanunu, 2004-2008 yılları arasında 5216sayılı Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kanunu, 2008-2012 yılları arasında kabul edilen5747 sayılı Büyükşehir Belediyesi Sınırları İçerisinde İlçe Kurulması Ve BazıKanunlarda Değişiklik Yapılması Hakkında Kanun ve 2012 yılı sonrasında 6360sayılı On Dört İlde Büyükşehir Belediyesi Ve Yirmi Yedi İlçe Kurulması İle BazıKanun Ve Kanun Hükmünde Kararnamelerde Değişiklik Yapılmasına Dair Kanun, tümülkede metropoliten kentlere ilişkin önemli değişimler yaratmıştır. İstanbulMetropoliten Alanı’nda kentsel gelişmenin bir göstergesi olarak idari sınırlarsürekli değişse de uluslararası sermayenin yönlendirmeleri ile kentselbölgedeki dinamikler daha çok etkili olmaktadır. Bu haliyle idari sınırdeğişiklikleri, kentsel gelişmenin yönlen-diricisi olmaktan çok, mekânsaldeğişimin yasallaşmasına olanak sağlayan bir fırsat olarakdeğerlendirilmektedir. Sonuç olarak, İstanbul’u içinde bulunduğu bölge içindebir finans merkezi yapma yolundaki değişim hedefleri ile kentin bütüncülplanlama çalışmaları arasında doğrusal bir ilişki bulunmadığı, yasal mevzuat veplanlama sürecindeki parçalanmışlığı destekleyecek şekilde idari sınır deği-şikliklerininyapıldığı, ülkedeki birincil metropol kentin salt kendi il sınırlarında değil,içinde bulunduğu kentsel sistemin bir parçası olarak planlanması gerektiği,idari sınırlara bağlı bir planlama anlayışından ziyade, stratejik planlamabölgelerine dayalı idari sınırların geliştirilmesi gerektiği vurgulanmaktadır
Narratives #1: Eastern Mediterranean and Atlantic European Cities
No full textWe have selected seven contributions for this issue of Spool, four from the Eastern Mediterranean basin (Istanbul, Beirut, Acre and Jaffa) and three from Atlantic Europe (Bodø, Matosinhos and Gafanha da Nazaré).Roula El Khoury and Paola Ardizzola address the post-civil war reconstruction of Beirut in Lebanon and reveal how neoliberal models of development resulted in a generic city. Adem Erdem Erbas uses the Istanbul port heritage area in Turkey to showcase how GIS helps to consider underground cultural inventory from a historic landscape perspective within the framework of the conservation plans.Ana Jayone Yarza Pérez explores the potential of adaptive reuse evaluation procedure in the Old City of Acre, Israel, as a means to deal with development and gentrification in this World Heritage site.Komal Potdar explores the historical evolution of the old town, cultural geography, and the current state of exclusion and gentrification in Jaffa, Israel. She underlines the need for discourse on socio-spatial analysis and assessment for decision-making processes for urban heritage design.Diego Inglez de Souza and Ivo Pereira de Oliveira reconnect architectural history with social and industrial accounts as a strategy for understanding the relationship between infrastructure, fishing, and urbanisation by studying the emblematic case of Matosinhos, Portugal.André Tavares seeks to trace the links between fluctuations in the natural cod resources, the technologies used by fishermen to catch and process the fish, and the development of coastal landscapes and the urban form of the fishing port Gafanha da Nazaré, Portugal.And finally, Fatma Tanis uses an interview with architect Daniel Rosbottom from DHDR to provide insight into situated architecture in port cities by addressing a library and concert hall project realised in Bodø, Norway.Teachers of Practice / ASituated Architecture100% ResearchUrban Desig
Port Heritage, Planning Challenges and the Role of GIS Tools in Multi Layered Cities: Yenikapi Metro Station, Istanbul
No full textThe aim of this study is to present arguments showing that on the port heritage area, underground cultural inventory should be considered from the historic landscape point of view within the framework of the conservation plans. This study focuses on the Yenikapı region, whose settlement history of the Historical Peninsula changed following the rescue excavation performed at the end of The Bosphorus Rail Tube Crossing Project (Marmaray). The area covering the Port of Theodosius, whose multi-layered urban formation started in the Neolithic period and which was one of the most significant grain trade ports in the Byzantine era, and the port heritage within the background of this area consist of important spatial formations. However, waterfront regeneration projects have disrupted the spatial continuity of cultural heritage under the effect of neoliberal policies. The methodology of the study, which involves the use of GIS, is based on the overlapping of the archaeological surveys from the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, geological structure data from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, and historical maps. The conservation planning approach in a metropolitan city like Istanbul, whose archaeological layers reflect the port heritage, should be developed by applying the concept of historic urban landscape
The Role and Effect of Culture Cultivation (Culturevation) in the Relationship between Urbanism and Publicness
No full textBengü, Devran (Arel Author)In urbanism and architecture, the concepts of the public sphere, publicness, and public space have been used either as separate domains or as substitutes. However in a democratic society, these 3 concepts actually constitute a holistic whole. This point of view can only be advanced in an atmosphere of productivity that is not only non-consumerist, but which also differs from the contemporary capitalist production environment. When the art of theater is examined in relation to the development of publicness, it is possible to find spaces that may be tools of this different productivity that vitalizes the public sphere. There is quite a strong philosophical and historical connection between the development of publicness and the art of theater. In this article, the argument that theater is an influential tool in the relationship between urbanism and publicness is supported by the findings of field surveys conducted in the historic city center of the Kadikoy district of Istanbul. The findings suggest that the productivity of the rapidly increasing and accepted "alternative stages" of new generation theater spaces have characteristics that are different from the contemporary capitalist system. This productivity, which is visible in the environment of the new generation theater spaces nourishes publicness. This form of productivity that has emerged in the environment of the alternative stages observed in the field research is termed "culture cultivation" or "culturevation." This article provides a definition of culturevation and a discussion of the effective dynamics in the context of culturevation using data obtained in the field. Attention is drawn to how the existing publicness of local administrative structures, where the entirety of the public cultural production dynamic can be addressed, can be evaluated from a different perspective as sociocultural spaces that serve publicness
Protective effects of ursodeoxycholic acid in experimental corrosive esophagitis injury in rats
No full textAccidental caustic ingestions are serious medical problems especially in childhood. Various treatment modalities are being used for the complications of caustic injuries such as stricture formation. The aim of this study is to establish whether ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) has protective effects on experimental corrosive esophagitis in rats. Twenty four Wistar-albino rats, weighing 220-240 g, were used in the study. Experimental animals were divided in three groups randomly: UDCA treatment group (Group 7; n:8), control group (Group K n: 8) and sham group (Group S, n: 8). In group T and S corrosive esophagitis was induced. UDCA (5 mg/kg) was performed to the group T for 10 days orally. All animals were sacrificed at the end of procedures and histopathological changes in esophageal tissue were scored by a single investigator who was blind to the groups. In group T inflammation was present in two rats, muscularis mucosa injury in two rats, grade I collagen deposition in six rats and grade 2 in two rats. In comparison with group S these were statistically significant (p value was 0.003, 0.003 and 0.015, respectively). UDCA has protective effect in experimental corrosive esophagitis
Flame-retardant treatment of wool and wool-rich blends: A study of bath composition
No full textWOS: 000538589300001Wool and wool-polyamide blended yarns (88.6% wool-11.4% polyamide 6,6 and 78.5% wool-21.5% polyamide 6,6) were knitted and the produced fabrics were treated by exhaustion method with zirconium complexes. Six different baths containing potassium hexafluorozirconate and zirconium acetate were studied. the flammability hazard was evaluated considering parameters such as the spread of flame, the heat release and the smoke release rate. Regardless of the blend composition, the untreated fabrics could not pass the vertical flammability test. 100% wool fabric could pass the vertical flammability test when treated with only 1% potassium hexafluorozirconate and 10% zirconium acetate solution. Higher compositions of metal complexes were required for the blended fabrics to pass the vertical flammability test. in the cone calorimeter test, 100% wool treated with 5% potassium hexafluorozirconate and 10% zirconium acetate solution gave the lowest peak heat release and smoke release rate values as 146.4 kW/m(2) and 1.2 s(-1), respectively.Eskisehir Technical University Scientific Research Projects Commission [1504F172]; Scientific and Technological Research Council of TurkeyTurkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu (TUBITAK) [1150520]The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Eskisehir Technical University Scientific Research Projects Commission (grant number 1504F172) and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (grant number 1150520)
Correlation of ischemia-modified albumin levels and histopathologic findings in experimental ovarian torsion
No full textAbstractObjectivesIschemia modified albumin (IMA) levels significantly increased and may be used as a diagnostic marker in ovarian torsion. The aim of this study is to investigate whether there was any correlation between IMA levels and histopathologic changes in experimental ovarian torsion.Material and methodsFourteen Sprague-Dawley rats, each weighing 220–250 g were divided randomly into 2 groups; in Group 1, the control group (n = 7), only laparotomy was performed and in Group 2, the experimental group (n = 7), ovarian torsion was performed. Ischemia was performed for 3 h; following the ischemia period, the torsion was relieved by detwisting the adnexa and then the ovarian I/R protocol was applied for 3 h. Blood samples were taken from all of the rats to measure the IMA levels and the ovaries were surgically removed for histologic examination. A blinded pathologist examined and scored the samples.ResultsThe median (minimum–maximum) IMA values were 921.00 (870.00–966.00) ABSUs in the ovarian torsion group and 853.00 (782.00–869.00) ABSUs in the control group. The difference was statistically significant. In the correlation analysis, a significant and strong correlation was found between IMA levels and histopathologic changes (Spearman's rho = +0.987, p < 0.001).ConclusionPositive correlation was found between the IMA levels and the histopathologic severity of the disease. This finding is important for both diagnosis of the disease and patient follow-up. As a new marker in ovarian torsion, IMA may also indicate the severity of the ovarian histopathology
Effects of tenoxicam in experimental corrosive esophagitis model
No full textWOS: 000352501600009PubMed: 24602009Esophageal stricture, one of the important complications of corrosive esophagus, develops following edema and granulation tissue that forms during and after the inflammatory reactions. Tenoxicam, a non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug with a long half-life, prevents various leukocyte functions including phagocyte and histamine secretion by inhibiting prostaglandin synthesis and removes various oxygen radicals in the region of inflammation. We designed this as a histopathological study using tenoxicam in rats for which we created a corrosive esophagus model. After necessary authorizations were obtained, the study was performed in Canakkale 18 Mart University experimental animal laboratory. Twenty-four Wistar albino rats, weighing 220-240g, were used for the experiment. Experimental animals were randomized into three groups: tenoxicam group (group T, n:8), control group (group C, n:8), and sham group (group S, n:8). Tenoxicam 0.5mg/kg/day was administered to animals in group T, where esophageal burn was developed experimentally, 5mg/kg 0.9% NaCL was administered i.p. to rats in group C for 15 days, once in 24 hours. No procedure was applied to rats in group S. After 15 days, all animals were sacrificed under general anesthesia and their esophagi were extracted. As a result of histopathological evaluation, inflammation and fibroblast proliferation was not observed in rats in the sham group (group S). Intense inflammation was observed in six rats (6+/2-) in the control group, and fibroblast proliferation was observed as 5+/3-. And in treatment groups, inflammation was evaluated as 3+/5-, and fibroblast proliferation as 3+/5-. In our study, histopathologic damage score was higher in the control group (P < 0.005). We deduce that tenoxicam can be useful in the treatment of caustic esophageal injuries in the acute phase, but think that these drugs require further researches and clinical studies before routine clinical use
