Research focus

Disaster urbanization.

Afet kentleşmesi. A research focus that approaches earthquakes and other catastrophes not as purely natural events, but as outcomes of the urbanization processes that precede them, centred on the region affected by the 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes.

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Projects & study groups

What sits inside the focus.

Project · 01

TÜBİTAK 1001, Urbanization & earthquake vulnerability

Urbanization Policies and Earthquake Vulnerability in Small and Mid-Size Cities, analysing Antakya, Adıyaman, Elbistan, İslahiye, and Gölbaşı.

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Post-Disaster Recovery Atlas Working Group

Grown out of ARCH 564 Space and Culture (2024–2025 Spring), examining the socio-spatial aftermath of the February 2023 earthquakes.

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Together, these studies aim to reframe disaster as a question of urban policy, offering both a critical account of how vulnerability is constructed and a foundation for more resilient approaches to the cities of the future.