City and Regional Planning
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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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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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…
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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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…
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The Break in the Planning–Implementation–Maintenance Chain: Landscape Architecture’s Hidden Crisis
In landscape architecture, the success of a project depends not only on a good design, but also on correct implementation and on being sustained over…
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The Rhythm of Life in the Shadow of the Black Pine
The shadow of the black pine carrying the night sits on my tent by the shore of Karagöl like a roof tile; as if to…
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Looking from the Ferris Wheel
The ticket is punched, the door closes, the cabin gives a slight shudder. The gears begin to clatter like an old music box, slowly turning…
City and Regional Planning
A Metaphorical Look: What is Urban Planning?
What is the outfit? What kind of our needs does it meet? First of all, it is necessary to explain this. To summarize, the outfit…
City and Regional Planning
Slowing Cities and Impetious Mankind
Mankind: Out of Breath From Running About 13.5 billion years ago, according to known world history, the universe was created by an "explosion of absence"…
