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Architecture Turkish House: The Spatial Memory of a Civilization That Leaves the Sun to Its Neighbor
While scrolling through X, I came across a sentence by Ali Kaan: “Turks deserve to live not in cramped apartment flats, but in real Turkish…
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Opinion Columns The City’s Fitting: A Manifesto on the Tailoring of Space
Although scales change in the world of design, the struggle between imagination and physical space remains the same. Whether designing a building, a neighborhood or…
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Opinion Columns Rereading The City On A White Ground
When snow falls, the city does not actually change all at once. It simply makes more visible the things it has been hiding all along.…
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Editor's Picks Can You Hear the Character of a City?
Over the years, in different cities, sometimes in the middle of a walk, sometimes on the way back home, and sometimes simply because I could…
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History Dinosaurs’ Perfumed Flower: Magnolia’s 95-Million-Year-Old Secret
Today, let’s take a short break from everything, from all that rushing around and those tiring routines. I want us to step one pace back…
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Children Designing Streets for Kids (the book)
In this article, I want to introduce the book Designing Streets for Kids—a bedside reference I benefited from repeatedly in my PhD thesis—without stopping at…
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Children The Vanishing of Play Between Concrete
We’re wedged between enormous slabs of concrete. Between facades that are tall, glossy, perfectly smooth… Even the sound of children sometimes disappears without an echo—because…
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Editor's Picks The Gardens of Al-Andalus: Why Would a Civilization That Knows It Will Lose Still Build Gardens?
After a long time, one evening—quite suddenly—I opened Memories of the Alhambra again, a Korean series I had watched before and loved. But this time,…
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Bright Ideas Designing for the Majority: Rebuilding a City’s Character
In the world of urban planning and design—especially in the minds of mayors—there is often a recurring illusion:…
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Children Reading the City from 95 cm
We often see the city “from above.” From maps, plans, screens… And then from within life itself: from behind the steering wheel, from the middle…
