City And Commerce From Past To Present

The Role of Trade in Structuring Cities

The main objective of the workshop is to examine and exemplify the role of trade and trade routes in shaping urban structuring, from the scale of urban relationships to the scale of urban and building typologies.

Objective

Bringing together theorists, local and foreign experts and practitioners working on Urban and Trade to share and discuss their work.

Within the framework of the workshop, a symposium/workshop will be organized by inviting experts from 10 upper scales to the building scale and experts involved in the implementation and publication of the works.

Significance and Rationale

To study the role of trade from the past to the present on cities, to examine the role of trade in new settlement models to be created, to study the role of trade in urban planning, to present the study as a printed publication.

Target Audience

Those who work on the city, theorists, academics, urbanists, those who think about the city and those who are in the fields of application; municipalities, architects and planners, people in urban management.

Methods

Those who have worked and are working on the subject were contacted and asked to present their work.

The study will be conducted in 4 parts;

Study trip to Istanbul and Bursa,

One-day workshop with Prof. Ebru Erdonmez Dincer, Prof. Aynur Atmaca Can, Assoc. Dr. Murat Senturk and 3 experts,

Presentation of the studies at the symposium to be organized in October and writing up of the studies as a result,

A workshop with graduate students to be held in Eminönü in October,

Presentation of the results of the workshop in Bursa in cooperation with Uludag University.

 Implementation Steps

Workshop

Exploration Trip

Symposium

Workshop with graduate students

Attendees

The question “Who will do what in the workshop?” should be answered. The duties and responsibilities of the workshop participants should be clarified. In addition, expectations from workshop participants should be clearly defined in this section.

 Persons                                                                                                             Expertise

Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Ebru Erdonmez Dincer                                          Architect / Urban Design

Assoc. Prof. Dr. E. Ebru Omay Polat                                                       Architect / Conservation Restoration

Aylin Akcabozan                                                                                            Architect / Conservation Restoration

Elifnaz Durusoy                                                                                              City Planner

Stefan Weber                                                                                                 Historian

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yigit Evren                                                                        Socio-economics, Urban Planning

Mathilde Pinon                                                                                              Historian

Asli Kiyak İngin                                                                                                MA Architect

Prof. Fusun Alioglu                                                                                       Architect / Conservation Restoration

Seda Saylan                                                                                                     MA Architect (Research Assistant)

Dissemination of Workshop Results

Conducting public presentations and seminars and transforming them into publications, summarizing the workshop report and presenting it at the international symposium.