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Suleymaniye Regeneration Area

2008-12-15T03:11:02Z

Ekinoglu: /* In how far does/did the project respond to people's needs? */

'''Historic Peninsula of Istanbul'''

'''Dynaming the Urban Regeneration for All: Improving Alternatives for Social Sustainability of the Suleymaniye Regeneration Process in Istanbul'''

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=== Rationale: Why is this case study interesting? ===

The regeneration project of Suleymaniye area,that exists in the UNESCO world heritage sites list since 1985, is an ongoing process at the core district of Eminonu in Historical Peninsula of Istanbul under the authority of Local Administration of Istanbul. The Case study is focusing on emerging weaknesses of regeneration process such as of disregarding the existing user and their potentials reality for the area.

In this case study, the aim is to analyze an ongoing regeneration process in Istanbul`s Suleymaniye district in order to improve proposals for a comprehensive regeneration process with a strong social dimension. The case study is aiming to combine the physical intervention with the revision of social dynamics by proposals for increasing the distribution of the benefit of regeneration to the all actors existing in Suleymaniye. Strengthening the Public participation and promoting the employability rate by means of reinforcing the local economic activities through the strategic partnership with private sector investors are some most important components of the case study. The objective is offering methods for healing the results of immigration and exile that occurred at the area through the time and increasing social integration and decreasing the rate of alienation by the regeneration process.

In accordance with the intention of Local Administration to return the regeneration process at the historic but ''slum'' area of the city, into a existing-inhabitant friendly process; this case study is acting a key role by a comprehensive analysis of ongoing regeneration methodology and its policies . Thus, the results of the case study are expressions of dos and don`ts in order to re-shape the process to be able to share the opportunities of the process and enabling the social and spatial integration of the area to the Metropolitan city whole of Istanbul in economical,spatial and cultural aspects.

=== Author's perspective ===
* What theoretical or professional perspective do you bring to the case study?

As a landscape architect and urban designer, I especially improved a co-thinking on relationship of the space in transformation and its user in transition. My primary demonstration in this case study is the idea of urban space has a potential to initiate a socio-cultural and socio-economic development under a well designed actors and policy network. My aim was to looking for efficient solutions on this axis for this case study.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

By the beginning of mid 16th century, the district had been called by the name of the Suleymaniye mosque and its complex that was completed in 1557. Suleymaniye had become the second one of the two most important educated/sophisticated people districts in Istanbul. What gave the name of ‘’Suleymaniye’’ to the district is basicly the Suleymaniye Mosque and its Complex that is formed by every level of schools, Madrasas, Darulhadis*, Darussifa*, Darulkurra*, Imaret (Daruzziyafe)*, Hammam, Kervansaray-Tabhane*, Arasta* and Bazaar*. Education in schools and Madrasas was the unique urban characteristics of Suleymaniye what made the district to become an area of highly educated inhabitants throughout the time.

Today in the area, number of buildings with function of being residential units for families decreased and the others are being occupied by the occupiers from the cheap or marginal sectors and students who are studying at Istanbul University. Inhabitants are mostly male and coming to Suleymaniye from different cities of the country by the internal immigration movement for working. There is also a number of dormitories at the district.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

In 20th century, same as the districts surrounding Suleymaniye, the area left her brilliancy and became the habitat of poverty. However she kept inside the functions of education and health until 1950s, and preserved its vernacular architecture even though was damaged throughout the time. Like all other woodwork material based historic Istanbul districts, Suleymaniye had fires and today there is still some streets and houses preserves its historic characteristics in the area.

=== History ===
*How did the area/project/plan at the focus of the case study evolve?

Illustration: Table or time line

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Core Questions Working Group Public Space and Civic Identity ===
==== Who was involved in the participation process? ====

The idea of ''regeneration for all'' is being built on three proposals as the regulation for protecting the renters, revision of existing actors map and creation of social centers for making a participant and democratic platform to share the know-how activity and the common ideas for the project while promoting employment possibilities for the inhabitants.
Since according to the related source of problems, the participation process related one has been implemented in following ways.

Source of Problem: ''The way of stakeholders and local inhabitants` participation to the process will be determined by a public act'' (Regeneration Policy #5366)

The Problem: The concerns about public participation and social dimension which is necessarily to be thought analytically and underlined for establishing a participatory regeneration process is not expressed in a concrete way where it is supposed to take place in as referred as ''Public Act.'' This feature of the law # 5366 makes all the decision-maker authorities to design a regeneration process in different priorities and aspects which cannot be more important than covering and upgrading the area with its existing social context. However, one of the biggest problems for the participation dimension of Suleymaniye Regeneration process is getting its source by an ambiguous definition of ''public participation'' at the related policy.

Source of Problem: Existing Actors Map is formed as: Project Leaders Local Administrations --> Financial Authority--> Project Management and Coordination Office--> Authority of Final Approval

The Problem: Existing actors map is one-way vertical and does not contain the NGOs, Private Investors, Universities and Inhabitant Representatives. Participation and Empowerment related actions have moved from the margins into the mainstream. Since the community involvement is seen as a way to ensure greater and sustainable outcomes from Area based Interventions, the need to guarantee greater co-operation within and between different key institutional actors has become a taken for granted aspect of such interventions. The greater the distance between decision-making processes and the people they are meant to serve, the greater the risk that such developments will fail to achieve their objectives.

==== How was the participation process implemented (methods applied)? ====

The analysis of the process of "participation" in Suleymaniye case can be defined as consisting of a clear axis of a non-dialective actors of managers and audits. The main process was actually settled on a network of technical bodies and authorities at local and national level who is in charge of monitoring and controlling the interval steps in order to pretend it from the timing failures throught the process. However, a network of authorities and audits is potentially and by definiton have been missing to create resolutions model to mobilize the inhabitants in order to design an opportunist idea of involving the inhabitants to generate not only an economical but also social rehabilitation outcomes. As a source of problem on this paralel is some specific survey questions that posed to the renters by the local administration.
in order to analyse a specific step of the process, a question for the renter surveyors is below:

Do you want to own a property in the area?......................Yes/No
Do you want to continue to live in the area as renter?..........Yes/No

The concern of "participation" is implied in the survey as the idea of mapping the demand on willing to have a property in the area or willing to live in the area after the regeneration process. No questions were posed to the surveyors in order to map the economical and social destruction of the process to design a set of specific policy interventions for the survivor inhabitants.

==== In how far does/did the project respond to people's needs? ====

According to President of UNESCO World Heritage Center Europe and North America chair; Catherine Rossler, the unique aim is not protecting the physical site that presents a very rich cultural and historical context, the purpose should also be "integration". "The point is to provide a social and economical integration together with the physical interventions". As in Istanbul, in many developping countries metropols, such issues related to inhabitant rights, are totally connected with being a legal owner of a property or not in a particular urban regeneration district. This is another way to kick the renters out of an upgrading and value gaining territory. It can be easily understood that the alternatives named as "opportunities through urban regeneration" are far from market economy based approaches in the middle of Istanbul Metropolitan Area`s economical facts. By this reason a slow motion eviction threat is always keeping its existence for the renters. The renters in regeneration areas are aware of this fact. And they also know what will make them break away from their neighborhoods, will also change their way of living which is originally structured on strong social capitals and economic networks built in the district through the years. Even if you choose the option of transferring low income inhabitants to the "social houses" which is at 30-40 km far away of the city by long run and cheap mortgage proposals; the weaknesses of this proposal will be as; the new residential area is going to be very "foreigner" and "not a place of survival" for them; and this is an inevitable result of breaking those group of people away from their social networks, cultural practices, and socio-spatial integrations.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Future development directions ===
* How is the area/project/plan evolving?
* Are there any future goals?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Peer reviews or critique ===
* Has the area/ project/plan been reviewed by academic or professional reviewers?
* What were their main evaluations?
Pleas add references, quotes...

=== Points of success and limitations ===
*What do you see as the main points of success and limitations of the area/project/plan?
Illustration: Summary table

=== What can be generalized from this case study? ===
*Are there any important theoretical insights?
Short statement plus background notes

=== Which research questions does it generate? ===
Short statement plus background notes

=== Image Gallery ===

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=== References ===
Please add literature, documentations and weblinks

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[[Category:Social inclusion]]
[[Category:Turkey]]
[[Category:Istanbul]]
[[Category:Working Group Public Space and Civic Identity]]

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Suleymaniye Regeneration Area

2008-12-15T02:17:32Z

Ekinoglu: /* How was the participation process implemented (methods applied)? */

'''Historic Peninsula of Istanbul'''

'''Dynaming the Urban Regeneration for All: Improving Alternatives for Social Sustainability of the Suleymaniye Regeneration Process in Istanbul'''

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=== Rationale: Why is this case study interesting? ===

The regeneration project of Suleymaniye area,that exists in the UNESCO world heritage sites list since 1985, is an ongoing process at the core district of Eminonu in Historical Peninsula of Istanbul under the authority of Local Administration of Istanbul. The Case study is focusing on emerging weaknesses of regeneration process such as of disregarding the existing user and their potentials reality for the area.

In this case study, the aim is to analyze an ongoing regeneration process in Istanbul`s Suleymaniye district in order to improve proposals for a comprehensive regeneration process with a strong social dimension. The case study is aiming to combine the physical intervention with the revision of social dynamics by proposals for increasing the distribution of the benefit of regeneration to the all actors existing in Suleymaniye. Strengthening the Public participation and promoting the employability rate by means of reinforcing the local economic activities through the strategic partnership with private sector investors are some most important components of the case study. The objective is offering methods for healing the results of immigration and exile that occurred at the area through the time and increasing social integration and decreasing the rate of alienation by the regeneration process.

In accordance with the intention of Local Administration to return the regeneration process at the historic but ''slum'' area of the city, into a existing-inhabitant friendly process; this case study is acting a key role by a comprehensive analysis of ongoing regeneration methodology and its policies . Thus, the results of the case study are expressions of dos and don`ts in order to re-shape the process to be able to share the opportunities of the process and enabling the social and spatial integration of the area to the Metropolitan city whole of Istanbul in economical,spatial and cultural aspects.

=== Author's perspective ===
* What theoretical or professional perspective do you bring to the case study?

As a landscape architect and urban designer, I especially improved a co-thinking on relationship of the space in transformation and its user in transition. My primary demonstration in this case study is the idea of urban space has a potential to initiate a socio-cultural and socio-economic development under a well designed actors and policy network. My aim was to looking for efficient solutions on this axis for this case study.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

By the beginning of mid 16th century, the district had been called by the name of the Suleymaniye mosque and its complex that was completed in 1557. Suleymaniye had become the second one of the two most important educated/sophisticated people districts in Istanbul. What gave the name of ‘’Suleymaniye’’ to the district is basicly the Suleymaniye Mosque and its Complex that is formed by every level of schools, Madrasas, Darulhadis*, Darussifa*, Darulkurra*, Imaret (Daruzziyafe)*, Hammam, Kervansaray-Tabhane*, Arasta* and Bazaar*. Education in schools and Madrasas was the unique urban characteristics of Suleymaniye what made the district to become an area of highly educated inhabitants throughout the time.

Today in the area, number of buildings with function of being residential units for families decreased and the others are being occupied by the occupiers from the cheap or marginal sectors and students who are studying at Istanbul University. Inhabitants are mostly male and coming to Suleymaniye from different cities of the country by the internal immigration movement for working. There is also a number of dormitories at the district.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

In 20th century, same as the districts surrounding Suleymaniye, the area left her brilliancy and became the habitat of poverty. However she kept inside the functions of education and health until 1950s, and preserved its vernacular architecture even though was damaged throughout the time. Like all other woodwork material based historic Istanbul districts, Suleymaniye had fires and today there is still some streets and houses preserves its historic characteristics in the area.

=== History ===
*How did the area/project/plan at the focus of the case study evolve?

Illustration: Table or time line

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Core Questions Working Group Public Space and Civic Identity ===
==== Who was involved in the participation process? ====

The idea of ''regeneration for all'' is being built on three proposals as the regulation for protecting the renters, revision of existing actors map and creation of social centers for making a participant and democratic platform to share the know-how activity and the common ideas for the project while promoting employment possibilities for the inhabitants.
Since according to the related source of problems, the participation process related one has been implemented in following ways.

Source of Problem: ''The way of stakeholders and local inhabitants` participation to the process will be determined by a public act'' (Regeneration Policy #5366)

The Problem: The concerns about public participation and social dimension which is necessarily to be thought analytically and underlined for establishing a participatory regeneration process is not expressed in a concrete way where it is supposed to take place in as referred as ''Public Act.'' This feature of the law # 5366 makes all the decision-maker authorities to design a regeneration process in different priorities and aspects which cannot be more important than covering and upgrading the area with its existing social context. However, one of the biggest problems for the participation dimension of Suleymaniye Regeneration process is getting its source by an ambiguous definition of ''public participation'' at the related policy.

Source of Problem: Existing Actors Map is formed as: Project Leaders Local Administrations --> Financial Authority--> Project Management and Coordination Office--> Authority of Final Approval

The Problem: Existing actors map is one-way vertical and does not contain the NGOs, Private Investors, Universities and Inhabitant Representatives. Participation and Empowerment related actions have moved from the margins into the mainstream. Since the community involvement is seen as a way to ensure greater and sustainable outcomes from Area based Interventions, the need to guarantee greater co-operation within and between different key institutional actors has become a taken for granted aspect of such interventions. The greater the distance between decision-making processes and the people they are meant to serve, the greater the risk that such developments will fail to achieve their objectives.

==== How was the participation process implemented (methods applied)? ====

The analysis of the process of "participation" in Suleymaniye case can be defined as consisting of a clear axis of a non-dialective actors of managers and audits. The main process was actually settled on a network of technical bodies and authorities at local and national level who is in charge of monitoring and controlling the interval steps in order to pretend it from the timing failures throught the process. However, a network of authorities and audits is potentially and by definiton have been missing to create resolutions model to mobilize the inhabitants in order to design an opportunist idea of involving the inhabitants to generate not only an economical but also social rehabilitation outcomes. As a source of problem on this paralel is some specific survey questions that posed to the renters by the local administration.
in order to analyse a specific step of the process, a question for the renter surveyors is below:

Do you want to own a property in the area?......................Yes/No
Do you want to continue to live in the area as renter?..........Yes/No

The concern of "participation" is implied in the survey as the idea of mapping the demand on willing to have a property in the area or willing to live in the area after the regeneration process. No questions were posed to the surveyors in order to map the economical and social destruction of the process to design a set of specific policy interventions for the survivor inhabitants.

==== In how far does/did the project respond to people's needs? ====

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Future development directions ===
* How is the area/project/plan evolving?
* Are there any future goals?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Peer reviews or critique ===
* Has the area/ project/plan been reviewed by academic or professional reviewers?
* What were their main evaluations?
Pleas add references, quotes...

=== Points of success and limitations ===
*What do you see as the main points of success and limitations of the area/project/plan?
Illustration: Summary table

=== What can be generalized from this case study? ===
*Are there any important theoretical insights?
Short statement plus background notes

=== Which research questions does it generate? ===
Short statement plus background notes

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
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=== References ===
Please add literature, documentations and weblinks

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----
[[Category:Case Study]]
[[Category:Social inclusion]]
[[Category:Turkey]]
[[Category:Istanbul]]
[[Category:Working Group Public Space and Civic Identity]]

About categories: You can add more categories by copying the tag and filling in your additional categories

Working Group Public Space and Civic Identity

2008-12-15T02:17:00Z

Ekinoglu: /* How was the participation process implemented (methods applied)? */

Working Group Public Space and Civic Identity

2008-12-15T02:16:30Z

Ekinoglu: /* How was the participation process implemented (methods applied)? */

== Case Studies of this working group ==
The list includes all case studies categorised in this group and the respective answers to the first question "Rationale:Why is this case study interesting?"

''Attention: this is a dynamic page list, do not edit this paragraph!''
[[Category:Working Group Public Space and Civic Identity]]

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== Core Questions of this Working Group ==

'''Core questions as identified during the first group meeting on December 3rd 2008:'''

# Who was involved in the participation process? (Agnieska)
# How was the participation process implemented (methods applied)? (Camilo)
# In how far does/did the project respond to people's needs? (Liliana, Martina)

'''Notes:'''
* The names behind the questions identify those people that take up a kind of editor's responsibility for the questions. All group members are asked to integrate all questions into their case study report. The respective question editors will then compile the different answers and report back to the group plenary on December 19th.

* People who did not attend the session on 3rd of December may have additional proposals for core questions. Feel free to add these questions as proposals to the list above and discuss it via e-mail or using the discussion page.

* Please integrate the questions soon and try to deliver some draft answers before December 15th - otherwise it will become difficult to create a synthesis report for December 17th.

== Synthesis of Core Questions ==

=== Who was involved in the participation process? ===
Agnieska , Harun
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=== How was the participation process implemented (methods applied)? ===
Camilo

Suleymaniye Regeneration Area

The analysis of the process of "participation" in Suleymaniye case can be defined as consisting of a clear axis of a non-dialective actors of managers and audits. The main process was actually settled on a network of technical bodies and authorities at local and national level who is in charge of monitoring and controlling the interval steps in order to pretend it from the timing failures throught the process. However, a network of authorities and audits is potentially and by definiton have been missing to create resolutions model to mobilize the inhabitants in order to design an opportunist idea of involving the inhabitants to generate not only an economical but also social rehabilitation outcomes. As a source of problem on this paralel is some specific survey questions that posed to the renters by the local administration.
in order to analyse a specific step of the process, a question for the renter surveyors is below:

Do you want to own a property in the area?......................Yes/No
Do you want to continue to live in the area as renter?..........Yes/No

The concern of "participation" is implied in the survey as the idea of mapping the demand on willing to have a property in the area or willing to live in the area after the regeneration process. No questions were posed to the surveyors in order to map the economical and social destruction of the process to design a set of specific policy interventions for the survivor inhabitants.

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category=Working Group Public Space and Civic Identity
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include = #How was the participation process implemented (methods applied)?
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=== In how far does/did the project respond to people's needs?===
Liliana, Martina

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== Working Group Minutes ==

=== First Group Meeting ===

*[[ Minutes from WG meeting - Public Space]]

Working Group Public Space and Civic Identity

2008-12-09T02:36:34Z

Ekinoglu: /* Who was involved in the participation process? */

Working Group Public Space and Civic Identity

2008-12-09T02:36:16Z

Ekinoglu: /* How was the participation process implemented (methods applied)? */

Working Group Public Space and Civic Identity

2008-12-09T02:35:34Z

Ekinoglu: /* How was the participation process implemented (methods applied)? */

Suleymaniye Regeneration Area

2008-12-09T02:32:57Z

Ekinoglu: /* Who was involved in the participation process? */

'''Historic Peninsula of Istanbul'''

'''Dynaming the Urban Regeneration for All: Improving Alternatives for Social Sustainability of the Suleymaniye Regeneration Process in Istanbul'''

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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Turkey''
|-
| '''Topic''' || style="background:Lavender"|''please enter the topic here''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Harun Ekinoglu ''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the date of completion''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the client''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the costs (if known)''
|-
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|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
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|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case study interesting? ===

The regeneration project of Suleymaniye area,that exists in the UNESCO world heritage sites list since 1985, is an ongoing process at the core district of Eminonu in Historical Peninsula of Istanbul under the authority of Local Administration of Istanbul. The Case study is focusing on emerging weaknesses of regeneration process such as of disregarding the existing user and their potentials reality for the area.

In this case study, the aim is to analyze an ongoing regeneration process in Istanbul`s Suleymaniye district in order to improve proposals for a comprehensive regeneration process with a strong social dimension. The case study is aiming to combine the physical intervention with the revision of social dynamics by proposals for increasing the distribution of the benefit of regeneration to the all actors existing in Suleymaniye. Strengthening the Public participation and promoting the employability rate by means of reinforcing the local economic activities through the strategic partnership with private sector investors are some most important components of the case study. The objective is offering methods for healing the results of immigration and exile that occurred at the area through the time and increasing social integration and decreasing the rate of alienation by the regeneration process.

In accordance with the intention of Local Administration to return the regeneration process at the historic but ''slum'' area of the city, into a existing-inhabitant friendly process; this case study is acting a key role by a comprehensive analysis of ongoing regeneration methodology and its policies . Thus, the results of the case study are expressions of dos and don`ts in order to re-shape the process to be able to share the opportunities of the process and enabling the social and spatial integration of the area to the Metropolitan city whole of Istanbul in economical,spatial and cultural aspects.

=== Author's perspective ===
* What theoretical or professional perspective do you bring to the case study?

As a landscape architect and urban designer, I especially improved a co-thinking on relationship of the space in transformation and its user in transition. My primary demonstration in this case study is the idea of urban space has a potential to initiate a socio-cultural and socio-economic development under a well designed actors and policy network. My aim was to looking for efficient solutions on this axis for this case study.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

By the beginning of mid 16th century, the district had been called by the name of the Suleymaniye mosque and its complex that was completed in 1557. Suleymaniye had become the second one of the two most important educated/sophisticated people districts in Istanbul. What gave the name of ‘’Suleymaniye’’ to the district is basicly the Suleymaniye Mosque and its Complex that is formed by every level of schools, Madrasas, Darulhadis*, Darussifa*, Darulkurra*, Imaret (Daruzziyafe)*, Hammam, Kervansaray-Tabhane*, Arasta* and Bazaar*. Education in schools and Madrasas was the unique urban characteristics of Suleymaniye what made the district to become an area of highly educated inhabitants throughout the time.

Today in the area, number of buildings with function of being residential units for families decreased and the others are being occupied by the occupiers from the cheap or marginal sectors and students who are studying at Istanbul University. Inhabitants are mostly male and coming to Suleymaniye from different cities of the country by the internal immigration movement for working. There is also a number of dormitories at the district.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

In 20th century, same as the districts surrounding Suleymaniye, the area left her brilliancy and became the habitat of poverty. However she kept inside the functions of education and health until 1950s, and preserved its vernacular architecture even though was damaged throughout the time. Like all other woodwork material based historic Istanbul districts, Suleymaniye had fires and today there is still some streets and houses preserves its historic characteristics in the area.

=== History ===
*How did the area/project/plan at the focus of the case study evolve?

Illustration: Table or time line

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Core Questions Working Group Public Space and Civic Identity ===
==== Who was involved in the participation process? ====

The idea of ''regeneration for all'' is being built on three proposals as the regulation for protecting the renters, revision of existing actors map and creation of social centers for making a participant and democratic platform to share the know-how activity and the common ideas for the project while promoting employment possibilities for the inhabitants.
Since according to the related source of problems, the participation process related one has been implemented in following ways.

Source of Problem: ''The way of stakeholders and local inhabitants` participation to the process will be determined by a public act'' (Regeneration Policy #5366)

The Problem: The concerns about public participation and social dimension which is necessarily to be thought analytically and underlined for establishing a participatory regeneration process is not expressed in a concrete way where it is supposed to take place in as referred as ''Public Act.'' This feature of the law # 5366 makes all the decision-maker authorities to design a regeneration process in different priorities and aspects which cannot be more important than covering and upgrading the area with its existing social context. However, one of the biggest problems for the participation dimension of Suleymaniye Regeneration process is getting its source by an ambiguous definition of ''public participation'' at the related policy.

Source of Problem: Existing Actors Map is formed as: Project Leaders Local Administrations --> Financial Authority--> Project Management and Coordination Office--> Authority of Final Approval

The Problem: Existing actors map is one-way vertical and does not contain the NGOs, Private Investors, Universities and Inhabitant Representatives. Participation and Empowerment related actions have moved from the margins into the mainstream. Since the community involvement is seen as a way to ensure greater and sustainable outcomes from Area based Interventions, the need to guarantee greater co-operation within and between different key institutional actors has become a taken for granted aspect of such interventions. The greater the distance between decision-making processes and the people they are meant to serve, the greater the risk that such developments will fail to achieve their objectives.

==== How was the participation process implemented (methods applied)? ====
==== In how far does/did the project respond to people's needs? ====

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Future development directions ===
* How is the area/project/plan evolving?
* Are there any future goals?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Peer reviews or critique ===
* Has the area/ project/plan been reviewed by academic or professional reviewers?
* What were their main evaluations?
Pleas add references, quotes...

=== Points of success and limitations ===
*What do you see as the main points of success and limitations of the area/project/plan?
Illustration: Summary table

=== What can be generalized from this case study? ===
*Are there any important theoretical insights?
Short statement plus background notes

=== Which research questions does it generate? ===
Short statement plus background notes

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Urban Landscape Seminar Case Study List

2008-11-09T13:20:39Z

Ekinoglu: /* Social inclusion */

''Dear Participants - Please add the title of your case study to the corresponding chapter. You can add your title to several chapters if your case study relates to more than one topic. This title will later on become the link to your case study page. Please consider this title carefully.
''

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[[Image:Topicmap_urbanlandscapes.jpeg|right|Urban Landscapes Topic Map|300px|none|thumb]]
[[Image:Theme_selection.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Participants localise their case studies (October 29th, plenary session)]]

== Oben Space Elements ==

=== Gardens ===

* [[Suzhou]]

''The classical Gardens of Suzhou, China by Zhang Yujun

=== Parks ===
*[[Lettenareal]]
''History of a popular park in the heart of Zürich, Switzerland'' by Louis Wenger

* [[Petuelpark]]
''An artistic and cultural project, Munich, Germany'' by Martina Tuda

*[[Mauerpark]]
''Design in mission to bring people together'' by Haris Piplas

=== Squares ===
*[[Smithfield Square]]
''An old horse market in Dublin, Ireland. Redeveloped as a public open space as part of the re-generation of inner city Dublin'' by Eunan O`Donnell

=== Streets ===
=== Sacred Places ===
=== Residential Environments ===
* [[Viikki]]
''An ecological housing area of Viikki in Helsinki, Finland'' by Virpi Vertainen

* [[Riyadh]]
''The Diplomatic Quarter, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia'' by Christoph Dankers

=== Commercial Environments ===
* [[Cihampelas City Walk]]
Cihampelas City Walk in Bandung city, Indonesia by Nino Christian Handoyo

== Urban ecology and Nature conservation ==

* [[Viikki]]
''An ecological housing area of Viikki in Helsinki, Finland'' by Virpi Vertainen

*[[Great War Island]]
''A natural river island located in the central city zone of Belgrade,Serbia'' by Jovana Kovacevic and Daliborka Stojakovic

*[[High Island]]
''15km east from Paris' Center: An educative program about the relation between humans and nature'' by Lolita Voisin, France

*[[Lake Mogan]]
''Conflicts among the stakeholders of Lake Mogan Special Protection Area during the conservation'' by Emel Baylan and Bihter Bingül, Turkey

== Urban redevelopment and revitalisation / Brownfields ==
*[[Lincoln]]
''Planning for expansion: the reinvention of Lincoln, a small town in New Zealand'' by Paul Wilson

* [[Karlsruhe]]
''The contribution of landscape architecture to urban redevelopment and revitalisation: A case study exemplified by the east quarter of Karlsruhe (Germany)'' by Joerg Kappler

== Water Management and Urban Water ==
* [[Hangzhou]]
''Rebuilding the memory of scenery for Westlake (Hangzhou, China)'' by Qinyi Gu

* [[São Paulo Metropolitan Region]]
''Green Infrastructure for the Informal Settlement in the Watershed Area of São Paulo Metropolitan Region (Brazil)'' by Thelma Hisayasu

* [[River Liesing, Vienna]]
''Restructuring and renaturalisation of a former 70ies "Concrete bed river" in the City of Vienna according to the European water directive'' by Barbara Birli

== Urban Design ==

* [[Petuelpark]]
''An artistic and cultural project, Munich, Germany'' by Martina Tuda

== Public Space and Civic Identity ==
=== Participation ===
* [[Paseo del Buen Pastor]]
''A cultural, recreational and open Space (Córdoba, Argentina)'' by Liliana Baldi

* [[Uggledal]]
''Uggledal, Göteborg - Comprehensive Plan, Sweden'' by Andrew Butler

=== Gender mainstreaming ===
*[[MFO Park]]
''Usage of the MFO Park viewed by gender (Zürich,Switzerland)'' by Yvonne Keller

=== Social inclusion ===
* [[Budapest-Józsefváros]]
''Regeneration Program in Budapest - Józsefváros" - renewal of retarded urban district with the involvement of the residents'' by Agnieszka Górniak

* [[Medellin]]
''Social Urbanism: Enhancing community building and social capital through public space. A case study in the city of Medellin, Colombia.'' by Camilo Calderon

*[[Suleymaniye Regeneration Area, Historic Peninsula of Istanbul]]
''Dynam-ing the Urban Regeneration for All: Improving Alternatives for Social Sustainability of the Suleymaniye
Regeneration Process in Istanbul'' (Italy) by Harun Ekinoglu

=== Public relations ===

=== Civic Identity ===
* [[Petuelpark]]
''An artistic and cultural project, Munich, Germany'' by Martina Tuda

== Green Structure Planning - Strategies and Policies ==
=== Green Belt ===
* [[Schweinfurt]]
''The creation of a green belt as an impulse for urban regeneration in Schweinfurt (Germany)'' by Markus Peter

=== Green Infrastructure ===

* [[São Paulo Metropolitan Region]]
''Green Infrastructure for the Informal Settlement in the Watershed Area of São Paulo Metropolitan Region (Brazil)'' by Thelma Hisayasu

=== Transport / Infrastructure Planning ===
=== Urban Agriculture / Forestery ===
=== A wetland park in countryside for city===
* [[Taizhou]]
''This case is to design a wetland park in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China'' by Jing Bai

=== Regional park ===
* [[Rhein-Main Regional Park]]
''Regional parks as informal tool of spatial planning at the example of Rhein-Main metropolitan area, Germany'' by Nils Pudewills

== City Region ==
=== Peripheral Landscapes ===
*[[Buchrain]]
''Acoustic Problem by the highway in the village Buchrain - Landscape modification (Luzern, Switzerland)'' by Juliana Aschwanden

=== Urban Agriculture / Forestry ===

== History and Conservation ==
*[[Villa D'Este]]
''Villa D'Este Tivoli, Italy'' by Denise Ascione

Urban Landscape Seminar Case Study List

2008-11-09T13:16:36Z

Ekinoglu: /* History and Conservation */

''Dear Participants - Please add the title of your case study to the corresponding chapter. You can add your title to several chapters if your case study relates to more than one topic. This title will later on become the link to your case study page. Please consider this title carefully.
''

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[[Image:Topicmap_urbanlandscapes.jpeg|right|Urban Landscapes Topic Map|300px|none|thumb]]
[[Image:Theme_selection.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Participants localise their case studies (October 29th, plenary session)]]

== Oben Space Elements ==

=== Gardens ===

* [[Suzhou]]

''The classical Gardens of Suzhou, China by Zhang Yujun

=== Parks ===
*[[Lettenareal]]
''History of a popular park in the heart of Zürich, Switzerland'' by Louis Wenger

* [[Petuelpark]]
''An artistic and cultural project, Munich, Germany'' by Martina Tuda

*[[Mauerpark]]
''Design in mission to bring people together'' by Haris Piplas

=== Squares ===
*[[Smithfield Square]]
''An old horse market in Dublin, Ireland. Redeveloped as a public open space as part of the re-generation of inner city Dublin'' by Eunan O`Donnell

=== Streets ===
=== Sacred Places ===
=== Residential Environments ===
* [[Viikki]]
''An ecological housing area of Viikki in Helsinki, Finland'' by Virpi Vertainen

* [[Riyadh]]
''The Diplomatic Quarter, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia'' by Christoph Dankers

=== Commercial Environments ===
* [[Cihampelas City Walk]]
Cihampelas City Walk in Bandung city, Indonesia by Nino Christian Handoyo

== Urban ecology and Nature conservation ==

* [[Viikki]]
''An ecological housing area of Viikki in Helsinki, Finland'' by Virpi Vertainen

*[[Great War Island]]
''A natural river island located in the central city zone of Belgrade,Serbia'' by Jovana Kovacevic and Daliborka Stojakovic

*[[High Island]]
''15km east from Paris' Center: An educative program about the relation between humans and nature'' by Lolita Voisin, France

*[[Lake Mogan]]
''Conflicts among the stakeholders of Lake Mogan Special Protection Area during the conservation'' by Emel Baylan and Bihter Bingül, Turkey

== Urban redevelopment and revitalisation / Brownfields ==
*[[Lincoln]]
''Planning for expansion: the reinvention of Lincoln, a small town in New Zealand'' by Paul Wilson

* [[Karlsruhe]]
''The contribution of landscape architecture to urban redevelopment and revitalisation: A case study exemplified by the east quarter of Karlsruhe (Germany)'' by Joerg Kappler

== Water Management and Urban Water ==
* [[Hangzhou]]
''Rebuilding the memory of scenery for Westlake (Hangzhou, China)'' by Qinyi Gu

* [[São Paulo Metropolitan Region]]
''Green Infrastructure for the Informal Settlement in the Watershed Area of São Paulo Metropolitan Region (Brazil)'' by Thelma Hisayasu

* [[River Liesing, Vienna]]
''Restructuring and renaturalisation of a former 70ies "Concrete bed river" in the City of Vienna according to the European water directive'' by Barbara Birli

== Urban Design ==

* [[Petuelpark]]
''An artistic and cultural project, Munich, Germany'' by Martina Tuda

== Public Space and Civic Identity ==
=== Participation ===
* [[Paseo del Buen Pastor]]
''A cultural, recreational and open Space (Córdoba, Argentina)'' by Liliana Baldi

* [[Uggledal]]
''Uggledal, Göteborg - Comprehensive Plan, Sweden'' by Andrew Butler

=== Gender mainstreaming ===
*[[MFO Park]]
''Usage of the MFO Park viewed by gender (Zürich,Switzerland)'' by Yvonne Keller

=== Social inclusion ===
* [[Budapest-Józsefváros]]
''Regeneration Program in Budapest - Józsefváros" - renewal of retarded urban district with the involvement of the residents'' by Agnieszka Górniak

* [[Medellin]]
''Social Urbanism: Enhancing community building and social capital through public space. A case study in the city of Medellin, Colombia.'' by Camilo Calderon

=== Public relations ===

=== Civic Identity ===
* [[Petuelpark]]
''An artistic and cultural project, Munich, Germany'' by Martina Tuda

== Green Structure Planning - Strategies and Policies ==
=== Green Belt ===
* [[Schweinfurt]]
''The creation of a green belt as an impulse for urban regeneration in Schweinfurt (Germany)'' by Markus Peter

=== Green Infrastructure ===

* [[São Paulo Metropolitan Region]]
''Green Infrastructure for the Informal Settlement in the Watershed Area of São Paulo Metropolitan Region (Brazil)'' by Thelma Hisayasu

=== Transport / Infrastructure Planning ===
=== Urban Agriculture / Forestery ===
=== A wetland park in countryside for city===
* [[Taizhou]]
''This case is to design a wetland park in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China'' by Jing Bai

=== Regional park ===
* [[Rhein-Main Regional Park]]
''Regional parks as informal tool of spatial planning at the example of Rhein-Main metropolitan area, Germany'' by Nils Pudewills

== City Region ==
=== Peripheral Landscapes ===
*[[Buchrain]]
''Acoustic Problem by the highway in the village Buchrain - Landscape modification (Luzern, Switzerland)'' by Juliana Aschwanden

=== Urban Agriculture / Forestry ===

== History and Conservation ==
*[[Villa D'Este]]
''Villa D'Este Tivoli, Italy'' by Denise Ascione