coast line obstruction

this map indicates the coast line freedom of public usage from inonu stadium to ortakoy. the red areas are the only spaces that the public is allowed to use the coast and the blue coast line is unfortunately obstructed to the public usage by the commercial, historical and official institutions like hotels, palaces, universities and government places.

it is hard to perceive that in istanbul, sadly the most central coast lines' destiny is like this.

mustafa.

surveillance map

This map is an attempt to visualize a pedestrians monitorability on Halaskargazi and Cumhuriyet Avenues.
As we all know, there are lots of surveillance cameras around the city, monitoring the public space 24 hours a day, 7 days a week... The graphic shows the proportions of distances, where someone can sit on a computer and watch someone else walking on the street, through "mobile electronic system integration" web site.
In this example i chose my daily route between home, school and work.

Compound to Compound

Maslak is a prime example of the new global development that is shaping many of the world’s cities.
Here a new housing development (Mashattan) is walled off from the rest of the city. The wealthy residents live in 9 identical towers and have their own private world complete with shops and recreational facilities.
They must use their cars to go anywhere. Many of the streets in the area don't even have sidewalks, even though they were recently built.
From the housing compound the residents leave thru a guarded entrance and enter walled in streets. These cars enter endless highways and pull into a gated office complex.
The public space is walled off and the spaces that people should be meeting and interacting are now reserved for cars. Public space is secondary and non-existent. The use of guarded entrance shows that the public space is less desirable and perhaps dangerous, when compared to the friendly confines of the various complexes.
A vicious cycle: The public spaces are neglected in favor of pristine private worlds. This neglect causes the public spaces to lose their appeal and people’s desire to be there. The lack of life gives a feeling of danger and people no longer want to be in the spaces. They continue to wall themselves in more and more in every aspect of their lives (work, living, playing, etc.) until the only time people use public space in these new cities is for transport between compounds.

My mapping is currently not loading for some reason. Will continue to try.

Human Obstructions to Public Walkways

I chose to map the human obstructions along my walk at three times during the day. These obstructions include all of the various street vendors and people who intrude on the public sidewalks. In my mapping I mark the various spots that these vendors set up shop throughout the course of the day. Their use of the public sidewalk causes mini traffic jams amongst the pedestrians walking and causes what could be a direct path from point A-B to become a winding journey in, around, through, and over these various street salespeople.

-William Trakas

tophane + disconnection from the bosphorus

this mapping of tophane shows the connection (or disconnection) between the public space and the bosphorus. as the sections to the right demonstrate, there is rarely a moment when the public is granted access to the view and proximity along the banks of the river.

nonaccessible urban area (Kadıkoy)

nonaccessible urban area in Kadıköy

Most of the old urban neighbourhoods of İstanbul happen to have one thing in common: They are all urban blocks with courtyards just like the ones in most European cities. But they differ from the most similar structured cities of Europe by one specific point: almost all are nonaccessible to public use.

The aim of this particular remapping task is to present these nonaccesible urban areas of İstanbul which eliminate the possibility of a more diverse use of the built environment and its surroundings.

The route I have taken for the previous remapping task was to point out the city lights at night and their layout. That route is also shown in this map too in order to underline the fact that the night lights within these non-accessible areas cannot be mapped as they do not even mean much as long as these areas are not in public use.

interruptions of pedestrian access (instances of obstruction)

instances of obstruction-trees on the istiklal avenue

The arrangement of the walking routes on Istiklal Avenue altered rapidly in the past 30 years. The avenue was divided by the cars until early 1980s. The pedestrian and car circulation used to dominate the rhythm of the avenue. The first shift appeared with the pedestrianization of the avenue. By the 1990s the avenue was organized along the tram road with the help of the different paving patterns and the row of trees which gave the avenue a harmonious order of rhythm; the users strolling on the avenue were using both sides of the trees while the ones who were in a hurry were using the tramline as a fast track, intersecting with the tram from time to time. The trees on the avenue are removed in 2006 and the paving changed into a monotype. Today the avenue doesn't have its harmonious order system but instead it has a monotonous rhythm of mass of people.
It is not the existence of the trees but their lack which causes an obstruction in the public space.

INSTANCES OF OBSTRUCTION - 21.10.2010

Blockade of the sea

on the way to school (2)

Sulan Kolatani_influence (an example)

Sulan Kolatani (architect) did some research with his students in 1993, which consisted of making a walk between Haliç, Tünel, Karaköy, Kuledibi areas and filming the daily density of activities. This is I think, a map of directions of densities through many transportation methods, focused on these areas, and from his and his students' viewpoint.

My weekly transportation map from begining of September. It contains which ways I use, how often and what I feel at this places.

Mapping through my senses-30.09.2010

These maps show where I get what I need in my mind and in reality.

(re)Mapping Neighborhood through sense of touch

I chose to map my neighborhood through the sense of touch. Istanbul is the most crowded city I have ever been in and the one thing that stands out most for me is the sense of touch. It is seemingly impossible to walk anywhere in the city without being bumped or jostled by the many people making their way through the city. I chose three of the my most frequented spots in Istanbul, my flat, school, and Taksim square, and mapped the streets I must take to get there and their relative level of crowdedness. Once arriving in these spots I chose to describe more of an emotion sense of touch listing the sensory and feeling words I experience in each on these spaces.

-William Trakas

on the way to school

each time i come to school i follow several public transportation routes: first starts in Tuzla, from home to Tuzla station (by walk, 12 min.), second is from Tuzla station to Bostancı station (by train, 45 min.), third is from Bostancı station to Bostancı port (by walk, 7 min.), fourth is from Bostancı port to Kabataş port (by seabus, 20 min.), fifth is funicular between Kabataş and Taksim (5 min.), sixth and last route is from Taksim square to Taşkışla (by walk, 15 min.) which equals 104 minutes and with addition of approximate awaitings, i spend 2 hours on the way to school.
my perception of the city changes according to the type and duration of the journey. it can be enjoyable, comfortable, boring, exhausting, horrible or fun thro the external causes. this is a situation map shows the types of the routes which will be enlarged on later.

Patrick Franke_Elmadag

The map is an abstract representation of the journey from my apartment to the university. Shadow is used to describe the slope of the streets, color is used to signify the difficulty of crossing the street.

The buildings along the main street are shown in an exaggerated, distorted perspective. This is done to create the feeling of the urban wall that is present on the street. The building on the far right is only outlined in black; this is because it is currently being built but is not yet part of the urban wall.

The rough pencil sketching of the extended neighborhood represents an area I know little about. For this reason I used pencil, a medium that can be erased. The frame is off-center to show my understanding of the extended city beyond.

Mapping though sense_ Smell mapping of Tarlabaşı

This mapping was the occassion to focus on one sense which is always solicited in Istanbul : smell but in a conscious way. I choose my neighboorhood Tarlabaşı because it is full of different smell changing with the hours, the days and also the part of the quarter. Smell can be particular events that constantly change or ambiant smell that remind the activity of a quarter. Some streets are enlightened even though they are small or unknown. For exemple, Akkiraz Sokagi is a small street where workers cook the mussel the whole day. Kurdela sokagi is on sunday the market street so the smells are different and stronger than the others days. Night smell maps can also be added. We can see that on the other side of Tarlabaşı Bulvar, there is less variety of smells.

Osmanlı Başkentinden Küreselleşen İstanbul’a: Mimarlık ve Kent, 1910 - 2010

Osmanlı Başkentinden Küreselleşen İstanbul’a: Mimarlık ve Kent, 1910 - 2010
15-16 ekim 2010, ITU TASKISLA
http://www.obmuze.com/2010/etk140910.asp

Borders of housing complexes

This mapping is about the physical+mental borders of the housing complexes along the cross-section from Adnan Saygun Road trough the Dereboyu Valley to the Zorlu Center at Besiktas district.
The walls, gates and other both architectural and non-architectural (trees etc.) elements of the built environment constitute physical as well as mental borders that limits/isolates users or gives a kind of place feeling to the users. The borders that users experience can differ from place to place and time to time.
The housing complexes along the cross-section give me a feeling of being isolated from the inside or outside at different levels. I tried to interpret this feeling through mapping.

Sound Mapping of Erenköy

First of all, it is better to introduce where my neighbourhood's location is with a simple map. It is in the Asian side of İstanbul, in Kadıköy.

When looking from birds-eye view tothis district, I think it is interesting to see the main axes are nearly parallel to each other and to the coast. I want to experience the differences between them by auditory sense. That may say something about the way and density of their usage.

The method that I can follow is to record the sound at different axis and the lines that intersect with them.

The points that I choose to record are:

1 : Minibus way (Şemsettin Günaltay Avenue)

2: My street

3: Railway (Erenköy Station)

4: Various cross streets

5: Bağdat Avenue

6: Seaside way (Cemil Topuzlu Avenue)

7: Seaside



As the next step I may record the chosen points at different hours of the day - like in the morning, at noon, in the afternoon, in the evening, at night.

Remappng Istanbul through locals/ visitors....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4672127450/sizes/l/in/set-72157624209158632/

mapping the sense about istiklal street

the main thick line indicates the most crowded and colorful street of istanbul (i think even of turkey) and also the street everybody has a story to design or express about, where is istiklal street in beyoglu.

my sense when i am on the istiklal street generally focuses on the existense of diffent typed churches and the feeling about where they are. i mean i usually like to know that there are lots of them and this cultural diversity i feel when i am on the street makes me happy. so, i tried to make a mapping about the churches of istiklal street which you can reveal by chasing the main line and counting the streets. by counting the nearby street lines it looks now like anybody can reveal them from their 'other located' places if oneself wants to.

and to differ the church locations among each other, i preferred using their own national language on the map by using the word 'church' into their languages like armenian, greek, latin and chaldean.

the beginning and ending circles shown in the red colored indicates the taksim and tunnel squares that start and finish the main thick line as istiklal street.

and lastly i used some free transform distortions to give the mapping some kind of different dimensioned perception. this mapping's story is like this.

m.

Leland Berman's Neighborhood Mapping 1

In my mapping I was looking at my neighborhood centered on Babil Sok. I live at the bottom of the hill that crests along Cumhuriyet Caddi.
This Avenue is a significant divider for the area. One side of the hill faces the Bospherous and the other faces inland. The difference in development patterns is easily noticeable able and the client/ user that is being designed for is also noticeably different. As you go downhill away from the Bospherous you experience dense and traditional city development that becomes more run down the further from the top of the hill you go. This is signified by the growing number of completely vacant lots. On the other side Cumhuriyet is "modern" city development with larger sized lots, bigger buildings and space between each structure. The buildings are pulled back away from the street and fail to keep the urban edge.
I also looked at Babil Sok and how I experience the street. As I live at the base of the hill that the street runs down the whole experience is one of going up and down towards Cumhuriyet. I think of the street as a series of milestones that I pass along the way. Each spot has different meaning and use for me. The stores we go to for different things, the restaurants I like, objects that aren't buildings or shops that mark points along the street.

CITY LIGHT MAP 01

NIGHT LIGHTS: WHO DECIDES WHERE SHOULD BE LIT IN A CITY?

NIGHT LIGHTS: WHO DECIDES?

I want to know who decides where the night lights in a city are to be. The control of the street lights might mean a partial control of the city after dark. Does the municipality (or any authority) control people's night life as the street lights are placed? Is it always the busy streets very much lit, and the abondoned ones always darkish? Is there a pattern?

As a start, I tried to compare the parts of a certain route I always take at Kadıköy: from the Beşiktaş Ferry Station to the upper area Bahariye. Next step will be to spot the street lamps and spot the stores that also light the streets. Later, I may compare the different hours after dark.

On Translation : Açık Radyo Antoni Muntadas

http://www.archive.org/details/OnTranslationAkRadyo_604

Uykusuz, 11.10.2010 pzt. 17.30 @ 109

Murat ulug vs Kenan güvenç
"unversite ortamı icinde ve üniversite ortamı dısında mimarlık"

28.10.2010 @ istanbul exhibition @ bilgi university santral campus

meeting @ 10:00
ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY santral kampus
ISTANBUL 1910-2010 exhibition

14.10.2010 @ taskisla , 3404

second week's mapping task

second mapping task : A detour through the city

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your initial mapping task

first week's mapping task: mapping through senses

Pls. upload your weekly tasks to the blog with your
name and the name of the assignment.

14 October- one of the readings

Murdoch, J. 2006. Poststructuralist Geography: a guide to relational space. SAGE p. 4-25, p. 131-159

http://www.scribd.com/doc/16511202/Poststructuralist-Geography-Jonathan-Murdoch