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TAKSIM DISTRICT open frameworks of co-creation

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A Dynamic Dialouge of Everchanging Actors, Figures and Forms

LANTERNS CONNECTORS EARTHEN TERRACES OVAL PAVILLIONS

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L e t ’ s C E L E B R AT E !

First this amazing city, its life, its tremendous energy!

No image is stronger than its collective creative force.

Long before us this city was a global capital and long after us it will remain to be.

Let’s dream how in this moment in time we can come together to build our shared futures.

In this competition we have intentionally assembled as an interdisciplinary team of knowledge centric studios to test on ourselves how to open up our design processes to include diverse participants and the leading minds of expertise.

Our joint proposal outlines public realm

framesworks needed for the inclusive city we all desire.

The design work can only start after the public dialogue is initiated.

6x APPROACHES TO TAKSIM An inclusive attitude to cultivate civic production, a livable and fine grained

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city and responsive model for public space excellence.

linden tree 14m

sycamore tree 20m

jude tree 9m

10m pine tree 10m

CULTURAL PRODUCER

Appreciate Istanbul as a city with centuries of history ahead.

URBAN FIGURES

Enhance structures and figures that exist.

CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Refine infrastructure for access, comfort and excitement.

SOCIAL FORM

Call in new storytellers and enabling a variety of venue settings.

ECONOMIC FRAMES

Create a 'host of hosts' institution.

EARTH MOVES

Restore continous microecologies with corridors and clusters.

6x ACTS IN TAKSIM

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Places designed for public life and cultural production to flourish.

5. The Perch Plaza

1. The Ecological Loop and The Connectivity Mesh

(canvas, playful, daily users)

(water-wind-people)

To Bosphorus

To Golden Horn

2. The Gateway (grand station, animated, imagable)

4. The Meadow (open, naturalized, togetherness) 6. The Civic Core (library, youth center, public programs hub)

3. The Civic Living Room (urban theater, daily life, shyness)

1. The Ecological Loop and The Connectivity Mesh (water-wind-people)

3. Ridge Gardens Maçka-Harbiye-Elmadağ

2. Butterfly Routes, for all social bugs Talimhane-Dolapdere-Kurtuluş Beyoğly-Tophane-Shoreline

1. Tarlabaşı Parkway A linear park weaving the neighborhoods of the ridge to the Golden Horn, and onto Yenikapi.

6. STEM arc hands-on places for life long learning with a co-located engagements

Complete connectivity tissue to Istanbul’s greater networks

4. IETT Museum of Advanced Urban Technology

5. Dolmabahçe Park and Play Platform

EARTH MOVES Restore continous microecologies with corridors and clusters.

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Celebrate the diversity of relationships between land, sky, water and Earth’s creatures.

A geography streaming up and down, flowing, returning to a naturalized gentle urbanism Connectivity to the megapolis, to regional water bodies with a four season climate, anc bird migration routes

Watershed and Settlement Survey 1897

Büyükdere Maslak

3km running track Kurtuluş feeding and nesting areas for migrating birds alongside bosphorus

Taksim District

Art Hunts

7km bike trail Urban Strolls

Pera

Üsküdar Ataşehir

Harem

oldCity

Bakırköy-Büyükçekmece

Kadıköy Adalar

SPECTRUMS TO CULTIVATE URBAN NATURE

Dry House

Mist House

Knowledge Hub

Gazebo

Flower House

Bird House

Yoga House

Critters and Species Colorful, Ever-changing and Symbiotic Edible Fragrant

Grove Sycamore Urban Forestry

Form and Trail Linden

Branding Bird Callers Judas Tree/ Erguvan

Julibrissin, Magnolia

Color Me!

Creepers

Wisteria, Jasmine

Exchangers

hydrangea, Azalea Rhodedendron

Cleaners

Seed Spreaders

Asclepias tuberosa (Orange Butterfly Weed) Herb Robert Surfers

stork

Agri-zone

Mix and Match

Seeds

wild mint, parsley, sage frog

mulberry, plum

mantis

butterfly

fungi

Foragers Hunt

Sowers

Grasses

Horsetail Plant pond- lotus

Mattock heroes hedgehog

Micro-ecology Species moss, algae

Hosts

slug

Producers squirrel

pigeon

cat bacteria

crow

seagull

Ground Cover Species baby tears

sparrow

snail

tortoise

Ground Covers Timeless Durability, Permeable, Interconnected

Granite

Bazalt

Brick

Gravel

Compacted Earth Peat

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LINE & MESH

GOLDEN HORN

BOSPHORUS Cihangir

Finding Historic Neighborhood Routes

1KM cultural Walks Nature, Streets, Art, History, Food, Langage

A stroll GEZI

3 KM sports track Urban Park Stay in the Woods

7 KM urban geography recreation track Bike, Run, Walk

Streets as Ecologies and Public Places Esplenade Section Mesh Historic and Modern High Streets

Gazhane Bostan Cadde Section Mesh Urban Recreation and Bioswale

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İETT EUM MUS

Streeteries

Kiosks

TAXI

Urban Play Platform

Tarlabaşı Parkway Section Loop Pedestrian First Transit

Residential Streetscape with parklets

Slow-sidewalks

Bioswales

Perch to of Civic Library Playscapes to Bostan Cadde Elevation Looping a continuous urban nature

Urban Streetscape with spill-out

One-way cars to Bosphorus

One-way Bus + AKM Car Parking Exit

URBAN FIGURES Enhance Structures and Figures that Exist

Articulate its figures as storytellers of city-making that persist beyond the forms laid down.

the Taksim Gardens

the Proust Gezi Park Stairs/Ramp

the Room in Gezi Park

the Bridge

the AKM Facade and Foreground

the Republic Monument

the Esplanade

the Maksem

the Cistern Wall and Fountains

the Nostalgic Tram

the pigeons

the pine grove

the plane tree

the butterflies

the old bus stops

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the urban axis in AKM

the sculpture programs

the food & beverage

the granite paver

the posters

the cafe signage

flower on shirt

tea in tea garden

chestnuts

park bench

the festival tent

ovals

lanterns

bridges

rocks

TAKSIM LIVING ROOM a city’s ‘sofra’ with urban divans

384501OT reconceptualize as a the place were the everyday of city life unfolds and extordinary moments of our shared experiences happen. Celebrations, Demands from next Generations, Neighbors Sharing their regional gossip.

CALL TO LANTERN FESTIVAL

WORLD EARTH GRETA

SOCIAL FORM Call in new storytellers and enable a variety of venue settings.

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Design a set of civic settings that choreographed urban life in its myriad iterations. celebrations global discussions

openness and gathering together

streets are theater with spectacle of ordinary life

ready platforms venues for diverse activities and sizes

5.000 m2 1.100 (covid) - 5.000 PERSON holidays/national days new years political dialogue/demonstrate social change events projected performances digital spectaculars

7.500 m2 1.100 (covid) - 7.500 PERSON open air music/performance/film/digital seasonal events weekend play health programs relax watch the public crowd

1.000 m2 200 (covid) - 500 person film festivals music spoken word digital programs urban play one-day markets seasonal activities

foodie fridays read the city pop-up stags urban play sports thematic events performances digital installations artist public practices temporary markets exhibitions

the living room

the meadow

pop-up and impromptu niches and desire lines

openess and gathering together

music urban play public performance street food street performance pop-up event/play/programs rest digital works walks community games treasure hunts hang-out/meet-up be off the path but in the choreography exhibitionsthe pathways and nooks

seasons, colors, textures micro-habitats thematic botany horticulture programs seed bombing urban nature trails biodiversity awareness rest meet-up/ hang-out bench-it seeding forging gazing the gardens

urban choreography platform 3x platforms 3.500 m2

the perch

plays stragies for every age, accessible to all pop-up play urban play water play

meadow platform 1.500 m2 proust corner platform 300 m2

playscape for baby-young adult the grounds to play

fountains, water features, and water installations water movements feature ditigal water acoustic source

haptic-scape

recapture

the springs

focal point for experimentation urban theater for the everyday in urban futures,biodiversity, new perspectives, gathering and our celestial environments sharing discussing immersive climates immersive co-location immersive digital arts immersive social media immersive projection immersive virtual reality immersive nature immersive materiality Biodiversity activities Digital festival Co-located meet-ups the terraniums and digital platforms

watching resting waiting performance discussions hang-out exhibition nightlife landscape views self-organized gatherings public performances the amphi seatings

Intimate <50cm personal 0.50-1m social 1-4cm public 4m> *used for calculations

Covid 1.50cm

â&#x20AC;&#x153;the city is my theater, the streets my gallery, the parks are my community centersâ&#x20AC;?

Diversity of social settings that are suggestive of use but are composed of loose parts.

Civic infrastructure enable us to connect with one another, to address our shared concerns, to build community and to solve public problems. Jill Blair and Malka Kopell,

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ECONOMIC FRAMES Create a 'host of hosts' institution.

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Create circular value chains from ecology, programs and content.

6x Core Contemporary Public Realm Economies waste upcycling energy harvesting utility impact reduction biofuel well being environmental justice urban agriculture

GRANT PROGRAMS FOR PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC ART, OPEN EXPRESSION, AND PUBLIC PROGRAM

performing arts digital arts culinary arts visual arts literature arts design urban play music migrant culture botany life-long learning innovation and tech

Eco Economy Sharing Economy Culture Economy Night Economy Event Economy Experience Economy

micro-mobility lifestyle objects/services well being activities re-use/re-sale/barter user generated content

ŞİŞLİ To Levent/Asian Side modern shopping streets and shopping centers

street food entertainment nightlife venue diversity partner programming conferencing thematic programming

PANGALTI

festivals events well being learning communities of interest brand immersion

To Congress Center Concert Centers Conference Center MAÇKA To Open Air Theater Large Concerts City Park

To Dolapdere new cultural district Proposed Streeteries

High Street Shopping Flagship CBD Recreation Urban Nature Cultural

RIDGE GARDEN NECKLACE

TALIMHANE

TARLABAŞI

TARLABAŞI PARKWAY Dolmabahçe

To Golden Horn Waterfront new cultural district To Eminönü historic cultural district ISTIKLAL CADDESI

Bosphorus Shoreline Dolmabahçe Palace

Tünel and Galata Tower pedestrian retail BEYOĞLU AKM

Cafe/Retail Business/Diplomacy Hotels Culture Education

ÇIHANGIR

GÜMÜSUYU

To Tophane and Galata Port vibrant local neighborhood

DYNAMIC FLOWS OF PARTICIPANTS AND ENDURING ECONOMIC DESIRE LINES Capture the millions that flow through 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Streeteries, Event Venues, Public Programs, Festivals, Street Vendors, Tourism, Creative Production can inigorate the district and its surrounding 3 municipaliities as well as 5 characteristic districts.

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IETT MUSEUM FOR URBAN INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY

To Bosphorus Shoreline To Kabataş Kadikoy, Eminönü, FINDIKLI Üsküdar, Princess Islands)

TAKSIM PERCH

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OPEN STREET

SUMMER

OPEN PARK

CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE

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Refine infrastructure for access, comfort and excitement.

Demonstrate and institutionalize generous civic infrastructures for city and neighborhood.

S,M,L,XL

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Do you want a visit event festival ?

Diverse Audience Civic Library

Usable Large Open Spaces

Access to Urban Nature

Engage Public with Art Projects

Variety of Gathering Spaces

Time Based Market Places

Enlisting all Voices Civic Places, Policies, Programs and Practices Telephone E-mail address Chat

How can I help you?

Location X

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playgrounds

call center (beyaz masa)

drinking fountains

touchless public toilets

wellness programs

school programs

Serving the Diverse Public Social Infrastucture NO PARKING

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TO NOON

2

PEDESTRIAN ZONE

Urban Trail

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1st and 3rd MONDAY

LOADING of the month ZONE STREET CLEANING 15 min.

Shared Pathway

HOUR 2 PARKING 8 AM 6 PM

FITNESS TRAIL

BIKE ROUTE

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SLOW

FRI

Loading only

15 KM zone

ACCESSIBLE ROUTE

STREET CLOSED Neighbors at Play

No Vehicles Mon-Sat 10 am - 4 pm

KIDS PLAYING

Human Scale Wayfinding

Micro-Mobility Services/Stations

Diverse Urban Trails

Time Based Street Closures

Accessibility

Complete Streets for Safety and Walkability Pedestrian First Transit

1.5m

15

Net 0 energy

Rain Water Recapture

Acoustic Harmony

Şişli

CO2 Reduction

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Dolapdere Urban Nature Is Central To Wellness, Sustainability And Resiliance. Ecological Infrastructure

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Programmable Lighting

Diverse Access to Public Display

Ambient Interfaces

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A century of utility and tourism focus has overshadowed the infrastructure for civil society.

Civic, social, ecological and creative infrastructure is our generations social society macro investment.

Kabataş

Kabataş

TAKSIM CENTRAL

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A Gateway integrating the Macro and Micro Movement

OPEN Station

CULTURAL COMPOSERS Appreciate Istanbul as a city with centuries of history ahead.

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Take on the responsibility to experiment and create knowledge for Istanbul’s audience of citizens globally.

ONE PLEASE

Urban Living Room, Taksim Main Square

A mixture of residences, workplaces and shops brings people out on the street and squares all the times

Taksim, an organized complexity COOL DRINKS ANYONE?

I WIN!

BREATHE OOUUUT!

I WIN!

I WIN!

I WIN!

Gezi Park, sport, play, leisure

Well designed and placed Gezi Park, giving grace and delight to its neighbors and visitors

The parks my wellness center no ain’t iiiine h suns hen w .. gone. she’s

READING ROOM

Art, Commissions, Channels, Performances

home movie day

A diverse and inviting Taksim (Promote multi-functionalism and a variety of activities)

The streets are my galleries

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love is love

love is love

... AND BEFORE WE GO ON OUR URBAN NATURE TRAIL, here we have the Gezi Park you may recall from the protests in 2013,

love is love Festivals, Protests, Celebrations, Workshops Taksim, your voice

Taksim is your voice, an open platform that brings people together.

GRAND TAKSIM CENTRAL

Traffic Connections and micro-mobility The network of patterns

Everyday Taksim Our everyday joy

A pedestrian oriented Taksim (Promote walking, traffic calming, efficient public transport, cycling).

now it is a haven for all the city’s living beings.

TAKSIM CIVIC LIBRARY

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A mixture of residences, workplaces and shops brings people out on the street all the times. A dense street network means more oppurtunities for retail and mores chances for neighbors and there can't be people on the street where there are no people at all.

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Spectacles Anadolu Turkish Atesi Slava’s Snowshow

APR

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MAR

Cuma Day at the nearby mosque

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Istanbul Music Festival Frenship Festival Pride Month

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core of public programming, citizen engagement, and cultural production

We are building the digital infrastructure of the 21st century and if 20th century taught us anything is that the investment in infrastructure open up vast opportunity for prosperity and disclose others.

13:23 City Lab Technopolis.

THE FUTURE OF WORK.

Cities and towns are among humanity's largest and most complex achievements.

The buildings, public works, plazas and parks of even a small town embody substantial amounts of capital, energy, natural resources, history and aspirations.

Cities are among our greatest creations, yet typically no single individual creates them.

Eric If we’re going to talk Kinenberg about transport, I would say that the great city is not the one that has highways, but one where a child on a tricycle or Jennifer bicycle can go safely everywhere.

Bradley An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

By “design with nature” the way we occupy and modify the earth is best when it is planned and designed with careful regard to both the ecology and the character of the landscape.

By living with rather than against the more powerful forces and flows of the landscape, communities would gain a stronger sense of place and identity.

Mark Childs Promoting equality in cities has become a mission in various parts of the world.

We can achieve more equality if public transport becomes accessible, efficient, and a reasonable alternative to cars.

The car is not a smart way of getting around and it is no secret that the good days of the automobile are over.

Jan Gehl

We need 24-hour trains and other public transport to ensure people can get home quickly and safety late at night, like in Melbourne and London. We need to further strengthen liquor licencing to provide incentives for good management and penalties for poorly managed venues, and we need policies that encourage venues to spread outacross the city.

The construction, maintenance of facilities and their respective programming that support social services and shared public life.

Ian L. McHarg

Enrique Penalosa

Clover Moore

Janett There’s so much more to a street than how many cars it Sadi-Khan can process, from the economic opportunities it offers, to what choices people have for getting around.”

“Reclaiming road space for bikes, pedestrians and buses isn’t a mere amenity, it’s an infrastructure and economic investment whose effects are felt far beyond the lane.

LANDMARK AS EXPERIENCE Enlisting all voices to participate in the interative and co-imaged

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city-making process.

6x Principles of Realization

EARTH MOVES Achieving net 0 operation with measurable impact for urban-nature biodiversity.

URBAN FIGURES Increasing legibility of Istanbul’s form, figures and communities and strengthening a sense of shared civic identity.

SOCIAL FORM Advocating that everyone is a designer and collaborator. Empowering communities in decision-making to ensure creation of enduring, nuanced and loved forms.

ECONOMIC FRAMES Institutionalizing our generation’s core value: sharing. Creating stewardship for making by many to increase community wealth while reducing environmental impact.

CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE Insisting on iterative design processes with low-cost test implementations and programs that create responsive feedback loops from all actors.

CULTURAL COMPOSERS Ensuring financially self-sufficient ‘host of hosts’. Insisting that seed funding of diverse community programs are vital and that they should take the lion’s share of financial investment.

We advocate that inclusive public spaces are only possible through open frameworks for urban practice.

So let’s use this competition to already make the shift from processes that deliver contested finished products to open frameworks of co-creation. Let’s include diverse participants of city-making at every stage to be rigorously open in our design processes and genuinely confident in our collective creativity. Now more so than ever we need all of our voices to overcome real global challenges and Taksim is where our voices are heard.

OPEN URBAN PRACTICES Pavilion Designers Temporary Event Designers Playscapes Designers Lantern Architects Lighting Designers Communication Designers Wayfinding and Signage Industrial Designer (furn) Co-Location Digital Arts Public Programs Curators Artists User Generated Content Guru

2023 Republic Centennial

Now – Taksim as testing ground Opportunity with the Covid disruption and listen to the citizens Move towards a new role; from being a governing organization to being an urban facilitator.

Strategic Urban Leadership “Massive Small” AND “Connected Impact” Test, learn and scale Quick wins Improved biodiversity starting Taksim and beyond Intense programming of the area, small and medium scale activities for young, families and elderly throughout the day.

24/7 Gezi park, creating and inclusive and vibrant space AKM completed Introducing micro mobility o Bikelanes on Cumhuriet Caddesi, Tarlabaşı Boulevard and Mete/İnönü Caddesi o Kabataş Ferry Station completed and pedestrian connection o Improved pedestrian connections to Dolmabahçe o Open Streets Program on Sundays along Taksim 2025 Linking up station, university, library, festivals, art collectives, and Taksim Station Library Completed commercial stakeholders to participate actively in public programIETT Museum Completed ming and small grant programs.

Bio-diversity corridors functioning Establishing a micro public program seed fund

Urban Living Room Completed Esplanade Completed Meadow Completed Playscapes Completed

2030 Taksim as a model for a responsible city

Reduce noice Cimate Change Science Begins Make clean the first observational data is collected 2021 Bike/walk to work OPEN TAKSIM PLATFORM Creative Culture Internationally Recoginzed

1980s

COVID 19 Taksim competition

OPEN EXPERTISE Landscape Designer Civil Engineers Energy Engineers Event Economist Smart Cities Consultant Acoustician Ecologist Safety Strategist Facilities Management Special Needs Consultant Civic Entrepreneur Water Designer

2020

2016

1960s

1950s

metro opens international fast capital is flooding istanbul tourism is abound alternative night venues removed financial center of region

2010s

growing

1940s

2013entertainment 1937

2015

Ground Breaks hub for Reconstruction of Barraks GEZI PROTEST mobilizes civil society movements

2014

civic activism and dissent regional revolutins return police presence pervasive

leisure time expanding republic class factories blossom

GEZI PARK city expansion

Military Modernizes Roads Infrastructure Focus for Urban Technologies

Biodiversity and City Materiality CHOLERA OUTBREAK

The Industrial Revolution Begins the mechanical automobile is prototyped

graveyards need to be moved Outside City

MAKSEM city expansion

BLACK PLAUGE devestates all of Europe

PHASE 1.

Diverse Knowledge-centric Practices Co-create

our organization

Anthropocen Period the atomic bomb is dropped

Planning the Modern City 1st wave of immigrant transit hub High Public Identity Crafted

Urban Mobility and Play Strategies

Public Art Strategy Cultural Policy and Urban Philosophy Digital Culture Strategy Urban Forestry and City Water Urban Origin Story

Open Taksim is vibrant with public programs Taksim District has achieved Net 0 operations Carbon neutral Istanbul announced Within top 10 livable cities

District Transit Mobility Professional Education Industrialized Workday

Urban Design and Civic Paticipatory Planning

Experience Design and Visual Identity

2037 Taksim Park Centennial

cultural centers sports centers education centers

2000s

2017

Phase 2.

Design with Public Comment Expand Participants

1970s

traffic is intolerable neoliberalism globally grows nightlife is thriving

2018

Megapolis Inclusive City Role Model

coux coux regional revolutons 14% population civil urban unrest grows growth from migrants

1990s

2019

Open Taksim as a Model The municipality matures in new role; from being a governing organization to being an urban facilitator.

PHASING A Social Construct

Migrating Birds and millions of years of geology

384501OT CHANGE IS THE CONSTANT Our framework embraces change, as civilization unfolds Taksim will reflect its dynamic

1560s

1730s

Ayas Pasha Cemetery Catholic/Protestant Cemetery Surp Agop Cemetery Taksim Reservoir ‘32

2021

New AKM

1790s 1800s 1820s First modern municipality ‘39

1830s 1840s

Dolmabahçe Gasworks & Illumination of Istiklal ‘53 CHOLERA EPIDEMIC ‘65 Horsedrawn Trams ‘71 Tunnel ‘75 31 March Revolt ‘09

1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1900s

Murat Tabanlıoğlu

French Consulate ‘94

2020

Taksim Mosque Union Armağan Station Akdoğan Structure

Taksim Artillery Barrack ‘04

COVID-19 EPIDEMIC

2018 Baltalimanı Tunnel

Maçka Barracks ‘25 Bünyamin Derman

2016

Vodafone Arena

William James Smith

Mecidiye Barracks Gümüşsuyu Military (Taşkışla) ‘48 Hospital ‘49

2015 July 15th

Galata Port

Coup Attempt

Dolmabahçe Dolmabahçe Mosque ‘55 Palace ‘56 Gümüşsuyu Harbiye Military Taksim Gardens ‘65 Barracks ‘61 School ‘62 Maçka Armory ‘73

2013 Gezi Park

Taksim Pedestrianisation Project

German Consulate ‘77

2011

Aya Triada Istiklal Tram Church ’80 Line ‘83 Taksim Armenian French Pasteur High School ‘95 Hospital ‘96

Taksim 360 & Gentrification of Tarlabaşı Istanbul Congress Center

Berkin Elvan

Protests

2010 2009

Mücella Yapıcı

Syrian Civil War May Day Celebrations

2007 Global Financial Crisis Silahtarağa Powerplant WORLD WAR I

& Great Recession

Giulio Mongeri

1913

Taksim Residences

1914

Taksim Theatre

1915

Electrified Tram

Republic War

1917

2004

Talimhane Pedestrianisation G-Mall

2003

I.Mahmut Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

1918 1919

Funicular

Süleyman Magnificent

Ekrem İmamoğlu

Occupation of Istanbul Bolshevish Revolution

2006 Kabataş

French used Barracks

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Taksim Stadium

1923

Bus System

2000 Bomonti Tunnel GS’s UEFA

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Abdülmecid İsmet İnönü

1921

Taksim-Levent Metro

Kadir Topbaş

III.Selim

Süzer Plaza

Bedrettin Dalan Bülent Ecevit

1999 Championship Celebrations

1998

Kosovo War

Lütfi Kırdar

TURKISH REPUBLIC Beyoğlu County

Süleyman Demirel

Kabataş Tram Line

1924

Hyatt Regency

Adnan Menderes

Maçka Democracy Park & Cableway

1927 1928 1929 1930

1995

Han Tümertekin

Pietro Canonica

Governor Municipal Administration Celebrations of the Ghazi Day GREAT DEPRESSION

1996

Taksim Art Gallery Fountain Renovation Project in Gezi Demolition of Swiss Taşlık Park Hotel

Taksim Republic Monument

Pedestrianisation of the Return of the Istiklal Street Nostalgic Tram Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall

Talimhane Neighbourhood

Tarlabaşı Boulevard

Park Hotel

1993 1992 1991

Bosnian War

1990

1989 Demo in protest

of Bulgaria’s forced migration

1987

Vedat Dalokay

İsmail Hakkı Öcal’s Abstract Sculpture

1979 Taksim Square closed to all demos & rallies

1978

Mehmet Konuralp

Iran Islamic Revolution

Atatürk Sheraton Library Hotel

The Marmara Hotel

1976

1977 Demos of the Süleyman Demirel Bloody & Bülent Ecevit May Day

1973

Johannes Dinnebier

Kemal Aru

1975

Monument for the 50th Anniversary of Republic

Sedad Hakkı Eldem

Bosphorus Bridge

Harbiye Officers Club

Hayati Tabanlıoğlu

Fire at the 1970 AKM

Atatürk Cultural Center

1969 Bloody Sunday

Taksim Municipal Casino demolified

1965

1963 First elected Mayor

1961

Bayonet Sculpture Removal of the Tram

1960 COUP

Mayor Municipal 1957 Administration

ITU Maçka

Divan Hotel

1956

1955 Incidents of September 6th-7th

Assingment of Turkish-Greek the AKM project Exchange

1954

Celebrations for Istanbul’s liberation Atatürk from Enemy Occupation Airport

1953

Hilton Hotel

TRT Radio Building Gezi Park Pedestrian Bridge E5 Highway 1950

Sports and Exhibiton Hall

1949

1948

MARSHALL PLAN

1947

Inönü Stadium

Paolo Vietti Violi

Greek Civil War

1946

Harbi Open-air Theater

Fazıl Aysu

1945

1939

ITU Inönü Taşkışla Sculpture

1938

Kristal Music Hall Demolition of the Taksim Barracks & Inönü Gezi Park

Rüknettin Güney

1944

Prost Taksim Park No.2 Landuse Plan

1943

1936

1940

WORLD WAR II

Taksim Municipal Music Hall Tennis-Fencing and Mountaineering Club

Henri Prost

1980 COUP

New Year Celebrations