TAKSIM DISTRICT open frameworks of co-creation
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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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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
the simitรงi
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
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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. 0.0.100.100
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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Time Based Market Places
Enlisting all Voices Civic Places, Policies, Programs and Practices Telephone E-mail address Chat
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Human Scale Wayfinding
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Diverse Urban Trails
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Accessibility
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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
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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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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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... 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.
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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. Jane Jacobs
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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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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
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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