From Garden City to Garden Left-Overs at Cities Methodologies 2014

'From Garden-City to Garden Left-Overs: Spatial appropriations in the gardens of Bahçelievler neighbourhood, Ankara, Turkey'  exhibits the findings of research inquiring the way gardens of apartment blocks are used, appropriated and reclaimed by the residents in an early republican era (1938) housing cooperative in Ankara, Turkey.

This lecture by the project's co-creator Deniz Atlay (Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning, Cankaya University, Ankara) will provide further information on the research study and the history of the development, it's current state and the future of the neighbourhood.

The project aims to reveal the significance of the gardens that are left from a once 'garden-city' and which are appropriated by the residents with the help of used or self-made furniture to create socialising spaces. By doing so, the project signals to the threat of losing the available gardens and the life that takes place in them due to recent regeneration trends in Turkey.

This event requires no prior booking.

A full programme for Cities Methodologies can be found here.