İDEALKENT

Yazarlar: Arbil ÖTKÜNÇ, Burcu Selcen COŞKUN

Konular:-

Anahtar Kelimeler:Creative cluster,Cultural cluster,Gentrification,Tourism,Galata

Özet: Throughout the period of creation, artists have been the initiator of the rise and the formation of the urban space where the work of art is produced and exhibited. As actors that shape the space, they move together in search of their needs. Thus, an environment in an art district comes out where the relationships ‘settle’ and so takes place a one-time urban and spatial transformation. It is easy to perceive this transformation through the perspective of the “creative cluster” concept. The basic characteristic of creative clusters is that they nestle all stages of artistic and cultural activities from design, production, and exhibition to consumption. Therefore, their forms vary spatially. They can be composed in a single building, in a complex of buildings, in a segment of a district or a net of places of production/distribution. Most of the clusters come out spontaneously without the awareness of the planners and principally in places waiting to be ‘regenerated’ that have lost their original functions. It is not ‘any place’ where the clusters have come out in Galata district which has an obvious historical continuity. It is a multi-layered surrounding which has hosted commercial, residential, etc. functions for years. In this study, we will try to evaluate the positive and negative effects of creative clusters on the urban and spatial transformation, triggered by the neo-liberal globalization policies.

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