The Port-City Portrayed in its Public Spaces: Introducing Micro Biographies of Places

This article aims to extent the notion of port-cities and counter the mainstream narrative that port and city, in cases like Rotterdam, have become disunited by reviewing its public spaces in their unique port-city characteristics. These characteristics can be found by systematic approaching and describing public spaces as biographies of place,...

Buyuk Valide Han: Historic heritage as an urban regenerator

A redevelopment of an urban blocked based on the reinterpretation of a traditional building typology. The project shows this typology is quite suitable for urban problems within globalizing cities. As a strategy it can intensify, diversify and instill a sense of the local in developments in the city.