Analyzing the stages of urban regeneration in Karşıyaka through family photographs

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2018-11-09

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Yılmaz, Ebru
Karakaş, Bilge

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Cities are in a constant change and urban regeneration plays asignificant role in changing cities. Although citizens are the major actors andobservers of this change, their role is mostly overlooked in macro- historicalnarrations. Pace of the urban regeneration in particular cities are so fastthat this pace has a considerable influence on urban memory. While youngcitizens have no reminiscent of spaces that exist three decades ago in cities,the elder dwellers remember them with yearning. Karşıyaka, a special region inİzmir, was a town with one-storey traditional houses from 1950s to 1970s. Since1970s, Karşıyaka has undergone an urbanization process. Five-storey apartmentbuildings have been built. The population increased with immigration. The citysprawled on the periphery and squatter housing occurs on the edges of the city.Nowadays, a new urban regeneration trend has started in the city. Five storeybuildings built in 70s are started to be demolished and new buildings were madeat the same field instead. Squatter houses at the periphery begin to turn intofive storey residential blocks with reconstruction permit given bymunicipality.Especially for cities that undergo remarkable changes in a very shorttime like Karşıyaka, photographs have become more important for historicalidentity and memory. It is an effective source in terms of both being analternative in historiography and being concrete evidence for facts at the sametime. A photograph frames a moment belonging to a space and time, which givesan information about history of physical environment, residential areas,changing structures and destroyed nature. At the same time, subject of thephotograph could reveal life style, habits, daily practices and entertainmentculture in relation with examined space and time. Moreover, it reflects howsmall dwelling areas are affected by central decisions (Danacıoğlu, 2001,p.90-95).Therefore, this study is a qualitative inquiry on memories of residentssituated in photographs taken in Karşıyaka. It aims at revealing the process ofurban regeneration in Karşıyaka, İzmir from mid 1960s to the present throughoral history and family photographs. The reason why family photographs arechosen to see the change in the city is that panoramic photographs orlarge-scaled scenes put a distance between the residents and the city, whichare two inseparable components. Another reason for using family photographs iscreating an urban awareness in owners of the photographs by making themcriticize about continuing urban regeneration. Accordingly, unstructured interviewswith subjects of the family photographs were made, and their narratives werecross read with academic and municipal sources. Themes as streets, residentialareas, decisions affecting urban environment, daily practices were marked inthe residents' narratives.

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urban regeneration, memory, photograph, Karşıyaka, İzmir

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/81947

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8 III. International Conference on Memory and the Past (9 - 10 Kasım 2018)

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Department of Architecture, Conference / Seminar

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E. Yılmaz and B. Karakaş, “Analyzing the stages of urban regeneration in Karşıyaka through family photographs,” İstanbul, Türkiye, 2018, p. 15, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/81947.