CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Akkaya, Batuhan |
|---|---|
| Title | Critical Heritage Urbanism: Exploring Climate Change and Heritage Nexus in Izmir's Waterbodies |
| Summary | This thesis contribution is ‘critical heritage urbanism’ that connects urban and heritage phenomena in addressing emerging urban issues of the Anthropocene. In this thesis, I reframed climate change as a cultural phenomenon and delved into the dynamics of water streams, wastewater flows, and treated water flows within the municipal climate heritage context, while also exploring the path to establishing a climate heritage nexus on an international scale. By investigating these interactions at both local and global levels, the research had knowledge contribution to intricate complexities inherent climate change and urban cultural heritage nexus in Mediterranean context. With these finding (mis)uses of heritage for climate action re-categorized by five: Impact of climate change on cultural heritage; solutions in heritage for climate action; cultural heritage as a resource for climate action; cultural heritage as an instrument for climate action; heritage is a process in climate action. |
| Supervisor | Günhan Börekçi, József Laszlovszky |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/akkaya_batuhan.pdf |
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