İDEALKENT

Yazarlar: Halil İbrahim DÜZENLİ

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:The House and City Foundation,Istanbul Earthquake Study Group,Turgut Cansever,New settlements,Pilot settlement,Zeytinburnu Pilot Project,Istanbul

Özet: This essay deals with two reports of the Istanbul earthquake study group, started after the earthquake in 1999 under the direction of architect Turgut Cansever. The reports were published in two volumes. Subsequently a project of Turgut Cansever, particular “A Proposal for three new cities” will be analysed. This project bases on the mentioned two reports. At the base of Cansever’s proposal we find the House and City Foundation, an agency for founding new settlements, which can be regarded as a contemporary reinterpretation of historical foundations (waqf). Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City model, which was planned and built with its detached houses and private gardens between 1900-1950, was considerable. But in those years, the cities under the Ottoman rule and the early Turkish Republic consisted of detached houses with private gardens as well. This essay argues that Cansever’s proposals were planned according to awareness and understanding of the actual housing statistics in England and the USA, the garden city proposal of Ebenezer Howard further the housing requests of the Turkish inhabitants as well as the traditional urban fabric of Turkey’s cities between 1900 and 1950. In this meaning the essay discusses if the proposals are realistic or utopian

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