Zeynep Gunay

Koruma geçmişin devamlılığını sağlama amacını taşımaktadır. Ancak bu amacın eyleme dönüştürülmesi sürecinde kaçınılmaz olarak hem korumanın ve korunanın kendi normatif yapısından kaynaklanan hem de korunanın güncel ekonomi-politik gündem çerçevesinde farklı algılanma biçimlerinden kaynaklanan çatışma ortamını da beraberinde getirmektedir. Bu çatışmaların başında korumanın kalkınmaya ve değişime karşıt olduğu inancı yatmaktadır. Çatışmaların çözümü ise mirasın yaşayabilirliğinin sağlanması gereksinimi, sosyo-kültürel ihtiyaçlar ve ekonomik çıkarlar arasında dengenin sağlanması; diğer bir deyişle, korumanın eylem yerine bir süreç olarak kurumsallığını sağlayacak sürdürülebilir planlama ve yönetimin uygulanabilirliğinin sağlanması ile mümkündür. Bu kapsamda öncelikle neden koruyoruz sorusunun yanıtlanması, sonrasında ise güncel ekonomi-politik gündem çerçevesinde çatışmalara izin vermeyecek şekilde nasıl korumalıyız sorusunun tartışılması gerekmektedir. Bu bölümün amacı da planlama disiplini ile yeni tanışan öğrencilere, korumaya duyarlı planlama çalışmaları için kavramsal bir rehber oluşturmaktır. Bu kapsamda bu bölümde kentsel ölçekte koruma kavramı ve değişen kapsamı irdelenecek, koruma – kalkınma, devamlılık - değişim ilişkisi ve ikilemi çerçevesinde tarihi çevrelerin sürdürülebilirliğinin sağlanmasına yönelik olarak koruma planlaması ve yönetimi kavramsal, politik ve yönetsel boyutlarıyla tartışılacak, kentsel ölçekte koruma anlayışının kentsel planlama ile ilişkisinde gündeme gelen ekonomik, sosyal ve politik mücadele konu alanları riskleri ve fırsatları ile ortaya konacaktır.

In: S.S. Özdemir, B. Özdemir Sarı, N. Uzun (Ed) Kent Planlama: Kavramlar, Konular, Güncel Tartışmalar / Urban Planning: Concepts, Issues, Discourses, 485-506, Ankara: İmge, 2017.

The paper aims at presenting a critical appraisal on Turkey’s quest for urban renewal under the threat of man-made disasters, through a special consid- eration on historic urban landscapes, and particularly its world heritage sites. It deals with how policies designed to mitigate earthquake risk and provide quality of life in the transformation of historic urban landscapes turn into tools of extensive clearance of spatial, social and cultural fabric with the experiences from Istanbul. The paper hopes that the lessons learned from Istanbul’s experience provide a medium to discuss the severe challenges and their resolving instruments associated with natural revanchist disasters as well as man-made disasters, especially in developing countries and in the sites with outstanding common heritage values such as Kathmandu.

In: J.H. Kruhl, R. Adhikari, U.E. Dorka (Ed) Living with the Threat of Earthquakes: Short and Long-Term Management of Earthquake-Related Risks and Damage Prevention in Nepal, 129-142, Springer International, 2018.

This paper presents the learning outcomes of ‘The Re-PUBLIC Workshop: Remaking the Public Space’, which took place in Istanbul as part of European Union Life Long Learning Erasmus Intensive Programme 2014. It focused on complex and diversified layers of public space within the context of the place-making logic. Istanbul’s Taksim region including the Taksim Square, Gezi Park and Istiklal Street acted as the core problem area with its disintegrated and segregated physical and cultural territorial borders. The participants were invited to develop their own understanding of public space and jointly produce their own place-making strategies on possible alternatives for the process of planning, designing and implementing change in public spaces in accordance to their scope, use and meaning. As a result, the Re-PUBLIC Workshop tested a number of innovative research and planning methods to improve teaching in planning and design studies. A major impact was expected from the cross-country approach and joint-learning. It is hoped that the experience of Re-PUBLIC will provide a critical medium of knowledge transfer in design education.

Günay, Z., Koramaz, T.K., Özüekren, A.Ş. (2015) From squatter upgrading to large-scale renewal programmes: Housing renewal in Turkey. In: R., Turkington, C. Watson (Ed) Renewing Europe’s Housing, 215-244, Bristol: Policy Press [received Gerd Albers Award 2015 by ISoCaRP].

While the term "urban regeneration" has become a catchphrase in Turkey over the past two decades, the historic neighbourhoods have turned into valuable resources in line with the rise of neo-liberal urban policy and planning agenda. Especially the enactment of the Law on the Protection and the Revitalisation of Deteriorated Historical and Cultural Immovable Assets through Renovation and Regeneration (Law no. 5366) in 2005 has introduced a major challenge for the future planning histories of major cities. Hence, it has turned into a social exclusion instrument in the hands of ambitious central and local governments in the need for re-creating "global" and "competitive" cities. Among the threats of this process are socio-spatial polarisation and segregation, social exclusion, and displacement. There are many historic neighbourhoods in Istanbul under the threat of exclusion and even eviction through the current urban regeneration agenda. The paper, within ...

Gunay, Z. (2015) Brisbane kenti ve Howard Smith Rıhtımı arasında bir arayüz: ISoCaRP Genç Plancılar Atölyesi [An interface between Brisbane City and Howard Smith Wharves: ISoCaRP Young Planning Professionals Workshop]. Yapı Journal (402 | May), 80-86.

Gunay, Z. (2008) Neoliberal urbanism and sustainability of cultural heritage. Proceedings CD, 44th ISoCaRP Congress: Urban Growth without Sprawl – A Way Towards Sustainable Urbanization, Dalian, China, 19-23 September 2008 [received Routledge Prize Honorary Mention 2008 by ISoCaRP]

Günay, Z. (2016) Lefkosa vs. Nicosia: Reimagining of heritage through the mnemonics of conflict. Book of Abstracts, Association of Critical Heritage Studies Third Biannual Conference: What Does Heritage Change?, 253, Montreal, Canada, June 3-8, 2016.

The paper attempts to provide a brief critical commentary on the reimagining of heritage through the mnemonics of conflict. Regarding the politicisation of heritage upon a process of continuous construction and destruction, Lefkoşa/Nicosia’s divided historic urban landscape is located as a medium to discuss the reformation of collective identities and memories within a contested space and a contested society. The discussion is constructed upon an empirical cross-evaluation of the mnemonics of official and narrated memories, so as heritage.

Günay, Z. (2013) Heritage as commons and the tragedy of conservation politics. Annual Meeting of the Association of European Schools of Planning Thematic Group - Public Spaces and Urban Cultures “Becoming Local: Public Space as an Imaginary of Alternative Urban Futures”, Özyeğin University, Faculty of Architecture and Design, İstanbul, 20-23 November 2013