Geopolitical Permanence in the Urban Context: Investigating Spatial Reflections Through the Traces of Ankara Hatip Stream

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2025-6-23

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Can, Neslihan Asena

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The city, framed through binaries such as nature and culture or building and ground, resists such fixed delineations when examined through the lens of its unfolding spatial and ecological processes. This thesis departs from these dichotomies to interrogate the city as a fluid, layered, and dynamic territory that is shaped as much by buried infrastructures and ecological memory as by visible structures and formal planning. Engaging with the conceptual framework of site, surface, ground, and agency, the study proposes an alternative lens through which to reconsider the ways architecture negotiates its relationship with land, infrastructure, and the unseen. The thesis treats the ground as both mediated and political terrains, charged with historical sediment, ecological force, and spatial contestation. The investigation unfolds through the urban geology of Ankara, where the concealed waterscapes and infrastructural transformations of the city’s inner core expose tensions between presence and erasure, memory and modernity. By tracing the obscured trajectory of the Hatip Stream (Bentderesi), this thesis does not seek to reconstruct a lost geography, but rather to rethink architectural engagement with what lies beneath; materially, historically, and conceptually. The stream, buried yet persistent, becomes a medium through which the thesis questions how architecture might respond to forms of agency that exceed the visible. In doing so, the study positions design as a critical practice capable of revealing, reframing, and working with the latent geographies that structure the contemporary city.

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Urban Geology, Waterscape, Hatip Stream, Urban Narrative, Spatial Changes

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/115142

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis