Paper Presented at "Summer School: Atatürk Model Farm", by Gazi University, International Summer School 2005, Gazi University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture Department of City and Regional Planning, Ankara
1. Gazi University
Faculty of Engineering & Architecture
Department
of
Urban & Regional Planning
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL
Ankara, TURKEY, 13-17 June 2005
“ANKARA”
The City Longing For It's Environment
By Mehmet Tuncer
Assoc. Prof. Dr.
61. in Gaziosmanpasa the orchard in
the Papazın Bağı, Karlı Street are
the ones who survived trough the
time and destruction of master
and implementation plans.
63. Orchards, in the modern (!) life in
which the seasonal migration was
forgotten, were firstly covered by
squatter housing as if there is no
place else for growth in the city.
64. And then in 1980 as if a great
invention, the areas were
“improved” by the district
municipalities.
65. Only seeing the improvement
action in the Keçiören would be
enough to astonish you.
66. Almost all of the quarter
“improved” via constructing 5 to 8
stories of apartment blocks
67. without leaving any area for urban
open space, urban green, or public
uses like sports areas or
playgrounds.
83. This process is called “urban
renewal” in the planning
literature; however, the renewal is
generally applied to socially
problematic high-rise zones in
western societies to create low
density areas.
84.
85. In spite of this fact, probably
because there was no other place
left for settlements and in order to
protect the lowlands and hills of
Ankara,
86. the renewals at the same quarters
over and over seemed to be a
natural process.
87. God knows how many times we
encountered never-ending and
continuous electric, water, natural
gas and sewerage excavations and
asphalting in many places in our
city.
88. Of course these constructions,
muddy roads, ditches,
excavations, even walking to our
houses on wooden bridges had
been a funny trip back to my
days in my eastern home village
childhood days.
89. It has been way too late when we
realize that continuously
renewed pavements and
infrastructure has been one of the
biggest environmental problems
90. and one of the reasons of the ever-
increasing inflation and national
depts.…
91. I have lived most of my life in
the Bahçelievler; and I have been
trying to live on between the
never ending constructions and
93. I have been struggling with ever-
increasing population, traffic and
parking problems.
94. It is easy to examine that this
process have been going on in
many quarters of the city.
95. The effects of all the destruction
of orchards and urban green,
96. how dense the city have gotten
owing to construction of multi-
storey apartments standing on at
least 3-4 times bigger land then
the former structures,
97. Prof. Hermann Jansen’s
Plan :
BAHCELIEVLER
(Garden Houses)
A good example of the
destroyed living urban
space and environment
142. the places which went trough
urban design and restoration
processes in the 100 hectares of
area is not more than the number
of one hand’s fingers.
145. in fact, they are under pressure
becoming more dense and of
vehicle traffic.
146. The enormous Altındağ
Municipality Building in Esen
Park in this quarter of the city,
not only annihilated the vista
point of Jansen plan,
147.
148. but also showed the merit to
collapse the pedestrian and
vehicle traffic in the area.
149. The Kaleiçi in the Old Ankara,
which is piece by piece
annihilated by fires, still is yet to
be protected by a Conservation
Plan.
150.
151. The Old Ankara’s situation in this
respect is not very different form
the New Ankara; however, there
are SIT restrictions that stop the
speculators.
152. If these restrictions wouldn’t exist, it
is plausible to say that Old Ankara
would be demolished in weeks and –
let’s not so exaggerate- 4-5 storey
building would be constructed in the
Kaleiçi.
163. “Metropolitan Area Masterplan”
should be prepared which
preserves natural, cultural and
historical heritages (in 1/25000
or 1/50000 scales.)
164. Urban Designs should be prepared
so as to form specialized projects
for restoration and rehabilitation of
the values stated above (in 1/5000,
1/1000, 1/500 … 1/1 scales.)
165. The destroy-built-sell and
improvement planning process
should be taken under control, and
structures should not be
demolished before they expire their
economic and technical lifetimes.
166. The revising of infrastructure,
roads and pavements in every
election campaign should be taken
under control with limitations;
since this the only way to reach a
sustainable urban development.
167. The citizens, habitants of Ankara
should be enlightened and
informed about the conservation
of natural and historical
environment.
168. Empowering the non-
governmental institutions to make
them be able to undertake projects
for conservation and development
is also very important issue for
the future of the city.
169. It should not be forgotten that
every citizen has an important part
in this process.
170.
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