Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 2007 / Fälschlich als Bd. 13 der Schriftenreihe bezeichnet

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1986. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 604-642).

Diss.--Urbana-Champaign--University of Illinois, 1982. / Bibliogr. p. 145-154. Index.

Diss.--Fakultät für Sozial- und Verhaltenswissenschaften--Universität Tübingen, 1996. / Bibliogr. p. 428-448.

This document is submitted in partial fulfi lment for the degree: Master of Architecture [Professional] at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, in the year 2013. / Made in Istanbul explores the heritage potential of the Galata area in Istanbul, Turkey. The research is focused on intangible heritage which is the craft networks, trade and community that brought the Galata district into being. Craft networks are embedded in the city and have been established over generations. Currently this trade is threatened due to greater municipal plans to make these areas touristic and convert buildings into cafes, bars and hotels. There is value in having craft and productions sites in the city and is an authentic reading for the city that dates back to Roman/Ottoman times. The aim of this project is to empower the existing community of craftsmen by using cultural interventions and tourism in a positive way to strengthen this trade. The design component of this research is a design residency and public space which becomes a platform for collaboration between creators (artists, designers, architects, writers, fi lm makers and etc) and master craftsmen. The site for this project has an historic byzantine city wall that dates back to the 1500’s. This wall is one of the few that still exist in the Galata area today. Careful consideration was taken to integrate this historic relic into the design with respect and sensitivity and to create a dialogue between old and new. This resulted in a contemporary light glass and steel structure to enhance and contrast with the historic stone wall.

Thesis (Ph. D.)-University of Washington, 1994. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [210]-219).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-152).

This dissertation is an investigation into intersections of housing and labor markets; community and employment relations; urban and economic inequality. Specifically, it focuses on the ways in which urban change in the form of earthquake risk driven urban transformation in Istanbul, Turkey restructures economic and community relations between employer homeowners and their employees doorkeepers. Doorkeepers are minimum-wage workers and live rent-free in return of providing daily cleaning, grocery shopping, and delivery services to their employers upper middle-income residents, with whom they share the same building and neighborhood. In other words, doorkeepers are members of service workers who serve the urban elite and allow the continuation of the daily lives of the affluent and the city at large. My research demonstrates that doorkeepers are increasingly being priced out of their communities as a result of the urban transformation that acts as an intervention into the labor market by leading to the replacement of formal work with on-demand economies and minimum-wage service workers with gig workers. Hence while urban change is a wealth accumulation mechanism for the urban elite, it aggravates the urban working poor’s precarity by generating the risk of simultaneous unemployment and involuntary displacement. This dissertation enriches our understandings of relational dimensions of service work by examining how urban policies shape construction, negotiation, mediation, and discontinuation of employment relations and in return, how social, class and economic inequalities find spatial manifestations. Therefore, by examining social relations of wage labor, more specifically spatial embeddedness of service work in rapidly transforming metropolitan settings, this dissertation puts various sociological subfields in dialogue and links labor relations to housing policies and urban change. The analysis draws on data collected from 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Istanbul, Turkey, comprising of 110 semi-structured interviews with various urban actors, including urban policy makers, business owners, service workers, and urban residents living in areas designated to be under earthquake risk. These interviews are supplemented by participant observation while volunteering at doorkeepers’ labor union. / 2024-02-23T00:00:00Z

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Istanbul is a city on the water and historically has been a link between East and West. Unlike most cities, ferry boats are one of the most commonly used means of travel, along with rail and bus lines. There is a contrast between the grandeur of the historic buildings as seen from the water and the unpleasantness of disembarking from the ferry, which berths at a small shed-like structure on the edge of the water which has old tires attached to piles driven into the bank of the Golden Horn. Some distance away there is a bus terminal and train stop. The paths of travel between these are unclear and the area is chaotic. Architecture has the potential to join and connect people, physical forces, the past and present at various scales. This project seeks to accomplish this connection on a particular site by building a new structure out in the water as a central focal point and joining it to rail and bus links with a tunnel and elevated covered walkways. / Master of Architecture