Sketch: Journal of City and Regional Planning

Yazarlar: Yasemin Küblü

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DOI:10.5505/sjcrp.2021.07379

Anahtar Kelimeler:Urban topography,Galata,Istanbul,Ruskin,Viollet-le-Duc

Özet: The article investigates ‘urban topography’ as a multi-layered structure by referencing two studies performed by John Ruskin (Modern Painters, Volume IV of V, 1843-60) and Eugene Viollet-le-Duc (Mont Blanc, 1876). Modern Painters Volume IV of V and Le Massif du Mont Blanc were focused on the structural anatomy of the mountainous landscapes of the Alps in Switzerland. The main idea of these studies was 'the necessity of analysing anatomy to understand the surface form of the earth'. In this article, the viewpoint generated on the structural anatomy of mountains is applied to urban topography in two categories: ‘The natural topography’ and ‘the human topography’ to be analysed in three layers regarding the complex nature of the city: ‘the ground, the underground and the underwater’. The aim is to reach a comprehensive urban topographical depiction of the city as a whole in the 21st century, together with its overlooked physical realities. Galata district in Istanbul (Turkey) is decided as the case area due to its multi-layered urban structure that is in a continuous accumulation since ancient times. Analyses are performed with topographical mapping, urban sections and urban diagrams by overlapping of current satellite images, historical maps and urban plan of Galata. Keywords: urban topography, Galata, Istanbul, Ruskin, Viollet-le-Duc

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