F. Yurdanur Dulgeroglu-Yuksel

Lost Informal Housing in Istanbul

Globalization at the Expense of Urban Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the city of Istanbul in Turkey, this book examines the cityâ s informal urban settlements, the need for affordable shared housing and what changes have taken place during the age of globalisation and urban development.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 145mm x 222mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9781032283609
• ISBN-10: 1032283602
• Artikelnr.: 64640512

Autorenporträt

F. Yurdanur Dülgerölu-Yüksel currently teaches several online courses at Waqkf University on culture, space, and urban renewal and has been serving on the editorial board of The International Journal of the Open House for the last three decades. She continues to lead workshops on housing in developing countries for ENHR (European Network for Housing Research). She was the director of HREC (Housing Research and Education Center) at Istanbul Technical Institute (ITU) for six years, and was the head of the Department of Architecture, of the Faculty of Architecture for two years until retirement. Dülgerölu-Yüksel conducted two major research studies on housing quality and urban transformation in Istanbul, funded by TUBITAK (MHA) and ITU, respectively, and served as a consultant in a team of ITU academicians to Kag¿thane Sub-Municipality for the Disaster Awareness Project. She also served as a jury member for TOK¿ and The Ministry of Urbanization and Environment; as well as did research on Quality Mass Housing sponsored by the Mass Housing Authority on a widespread questionnaire. She has been part of an international project on two nation's affordable housing: Turkey and Scotland (Glasgow specifically) through the Urban Mobility Fund, in the direction of UN Habitat III Conference on New Urban Agenda in 2016, culminating in two international conferences in Sweden and Cuba. Dülgerölu-Yüksel also organized several national and international conferences on ISVS (International Seminar on Vernacular Settlements) with Asian scholars and collaborated with OIKONET. Her research interests include urban housing and change, social housing, and mass housing; and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary global housing issues in poverty-stricken urban areas.