EXPERIENCE OF A NEW GENERATION URBAN DESIGN COMPETITION IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CRISIS: THE CASE OF MELES COMPETITION
Journal Title: PEYZAJ - Journal of Education, Science, Culture and Art - Year 2021, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
Based on the past urbanization experiences, our cities have significantly lost their natural qualities and urban potential. Many ecological areas that have remained on the peripheries of cities once became a part of the city because of rapid urbanization and have started to deteriorate and lose their ecological characteristics due to improper interventions or intensive construction. The idle and unprotected areas of ecological value in many of our cities should be reconsidered and new approaches should be adopted in the context of global climate crisis. This approach should include multifaceted planning, design and management issues for controlling urban growth, protecting natural resources, providing economic development and healthy urban renewal. Meles River is an ecological corridor from dense urban areas to the urban periphery and the competition opened to evaluate this corridor as a means of integration with the city is one of the best examples of such approaches. Because, Meles River still has a significant potential in ecological sense even though it has been exposed to the negative effects of urbanization and lost or about to lose many natural features, like its peers. The competition for this area, opened by the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, seeks the means of reconstructing the relations between natural, semi-natural and urban areas that provide and manage biological diversity in both rural and urban environments within a wide ecosystem. Urban design competitions aim to create public opinion in the urban planning and urban design environment, to lead new approaches, technologies and research, to discuss and change existing planning and design paradigms, and to produce theory and fiction. In this study, it is aimed to discuss the creative, innovative and pioneering solutions of our project, which was awarded with the 1st Honourable Mention in the "Meles Stream as an Urban and Ecological Backbone National Urban Design Project Competition", which was opened for the multi-layered, multidimensional and complex problems of an ecological corridor.
Authors and Affiliations
Mehmet Nazım ÖZER, Savaş Zafer ŞAHİN
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- DOI https://doi.org/10.53784/peyzaj.1028600
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