The service-based economy has impacted the Global South megacities, affecting their urban structure and the conditions of their inhabitants. The paper aims to explore the potential of the regeneration of existing but decommissioned productive spaces within Global South megacities using the case study of the Halic Shipyard, established along the Corne d’Or waterfront in Istanbul. Indeed, the valorisation of industrial spaces under the pressures of the real estate market often became the opportunity for a simplistic re-use of these areas as luxury housing compounds with a limited impact on the population and nearby neighbourhoods. The proposed research-by-design approach avoids deterritorialisation and reconnects this space to two urban corridors (a touristic axis and a service network for locals) and to several pedestrian spaces, oriented to the human scale, and focuses on the proximity and the space as a value per sé. In the conclusions, we reflect on the relevance of the correct analytical interpretation of the historical, existing values of the place as a tool for the project. Architects, urban designers, and urban planners will play a relevant role in these transformations, and their actions will reverberate both on the local scale and the city’s global image.

(2025). Re-opening the Halic Shipyard (Istanbul, TK) to the Local Community: Risks and Opportunities of the Regeneration of an Industrial Site in a Megacity . Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10446/294445

Re-opening the Halic Shipyard (Istanbul, TK) to the Local Community: Risks and Opportunities of the Regeneration of an Industrial Site in a Megacity

Paris, Mario;
2025-02-01

Abstract

The service-based economy has impacted the Global South megacities, affecting their urban structure and the conditions of their inhabitants. The paper aims to explore the potential of the regeneration of existing but decommissioned productive spaces within Global South megacities using the case study of the Halic Shipyard, established along the Corne d’Or waterfront in Istanbul. Indeed, the valorisation of industrial spaces under the pressures of the real estate market often became the opportunity for a simplistic re-use of these areas as luxury housing compounds with a limited impact on the population and nearby neighbourhoods. The proposed research-by-design approach avoids deterritorialisation and reconnects this space to two urban corridors (a touristic axis and a service network for locals) and to several pedestrian spaces, oriented to the human scale, and focuses on the proximity and the space as a value per sé. In the conclusions, we reflect on the relevance of the correct analytical interpretation of the historical, existing values of the place as a tool for the project. Architects, urban designers, and urban planners will play a relevant role in these transformations, and their actions will reverberate both on the local scale and the city’s global image.
1-feb-2025
Paris, Mario; Bilgic, Alara
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