29 April 2026
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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14 April 2026
Rereading The City On A White Ground
You know, there’s a concept in theater called the “rhubarb.” It refers to the empty, background noise of the crowd. Could that “rhubarb” actually be…
10 March 2026
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…
23 February 2026
Public Magnet as a Children’s Playground: Wired Scape
We’ve moved on to another project review piece; this time our focus is not a school building, but a play landscape embedded right in the…
19 February 2026
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…
10 February 2026
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…
19 January 2026
Ecological Literacy Terms: Loving Nature Isn’t Enough, You Need to Read It
Loving nature is often a well-intentioned starting point, but on its own it is not enough. For many years, I delivered 2–5-day Ecological Literacy Trainings…
14 January 2026
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:…
28 December 2025
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…
26 November 2025
Can Children’s Playgrounds Be Used Year-Round? A Climate-Responsive Design Guide
Have you ever noticed how playgrounds in cities are usually lively only in spring or on mild summer days, yet turn into abandoned spaces in…
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