Architecture, as a structural field, can be regarded as a text in which cultural representation, collective memory, and narrative construction are layered, in this context, the theory of intertextuality offers a theoretical foundation for analyzing the multifaceted processes of meaning production within the field. This study aims to discuss how architectural productions are rewritten and interpreted in the dimensions of representation, narrative and memory by addressing the concept of intertextuality in the context of architecture. In this approach, in which architecture is conceptualized as a readable text, four spatial typologies are identified: Residential building, arts and culture building, public building/ space and urban scale. The analysis process, structured through the discursive breaking points of modern, postmodern and contemporary periods, is based on content analysis and case study methods. The selected buildings are evaluated in line with conceptual references, discursive strategies and narrative planes; contextual continuity, spatial organization and forms of representation are analyzed through visual documents. The theoretical framework is structured around the basic concepts of intertextuality such as rewriting, referentiality, trace, parody and multiple meaning production; this theory is supported by readings based on poststructuralist plurality, structuralist sequential analysis and phenomenological experience. By integrating the theory of intertextuality with spatial analyses, the study offers a contribution to the development of theoretical discussions and the elimination of methodological gaps in the architectural literature through sample analyses.

The growth of urbanization and the desire of human populations to live in urban environments has provided the basis for the importance of quality of urban life, hence one of the most important goals of urban management is to achieve a suitable and sustainable quality of life for urban residents. Today, liveability has been expanded in most developed countries as a guiding principle in the framework of sustainability discourse in policies and urban planning. Ansariyeh neighbourhood of Zanjan City, Iran has a grid-iron layout with large blocks, which faces a per capita lack of green space. This neighbourhood, like most typical neighbourhoods in Zanjan City, is facing economic, social and environmental problems. In this research, an attempt has been made to evaluate liveability indicators and the level of residents' satisfaction with the quality of built environment to identify issues, causes of people's dissatisfaction, prioritization of citizens in their neighbourhood’s built environment and eventually evaluation of policies in the field of liveability. The research methodology employed in this study follows a descriptive-analytical approach. Spatial analysis was conducted using GIS software to generate maps representing the status of each objective indicator, while subjective indicators were evaluated through a structured questionnaire survey. The study sample comprised 370 participants. Based on the analysis, the overall liveability of the neighbourhood is average, with residents showing the highest satisfaction with environmental factors and the lowest with spatial ones. Moreover, when examining the four key factors influencing liveability; spatial, social, economic, and environmental, the social factor emerged as the most significant in shaping the liveability of the Ansariyeh neighbourhood. The results of this research show that the current policies and programs implemented at Ansariyeh neighbourhood have achieved relative satisfaction; in such a way that it has placed this neighbourhood in the state of average satisfaction from residents’ point of view. This study presents various practical recommendations in the form of policy, planning and design solutions for enhancing the liveability of Ansariyeh neighbourhood. The recommendations as well as methodological framework presented in this study can contribute to the future studies in the field of liveable urban neighbourhoods.

Mehmet Yusuf Akyurt is a relatively little-known yet intellectually significant figure of the 19th century. He was described by Dr. Erdoğan Erol as “a second Osman Hamdi in the history of museology.” This article aims to introduce M. Yusuf Akyurt, the founding director of the Konya Âsâr-ı Atîka Museum, and to examine the place of his book Tezyînî Resim Dersleri within illustrated art and architectural publications of the Late Ottoman–Early Republican period. Akyurt’s educational background, teaching experience, and the educational system of technical schools of the period are evaluated to reveal his contributions to both artistic and technical education. Subsequently, within the context of the Ottoman Empire’s industrialization efforts in the 19th century, the study discusses the educational policies directed by the Meclis-i Umur-ı Nâfia and the transformation from reform schools (ıslahhaneler) to industrial schools (sanayi mektepleri), which shaped the educational environment of the time. The article further analyzes the content structure and pedagogical method of Tezyînî Resim Dersleri, which Akyurt prepared to address the deficiencies felt in technical drawing education under the conditions of the period. It is observed that the work presents an original contribution for its time and constitutes a systematic and practice-oriented instructional material that remains usable even today. Moreover, the book demonstrates an advanced approach within publications on Turkish art, surpassing the works of researchers such as Celal Esad Arseven and Ali Talat Bey through its use of scaled drawings. In this respect, the study aims to provide an evaluation of the history and literature of technical and fine arts education in the Late Ottoman–Early Republican period, while also presenting the contributions of M. Yusuf Akyurt’s work to this field.

This study investigates the physical and social dynamics of traditional intermediary spaces in Malatya's urban center. These spaces are critical for maintaining the city's historical identity and collective memory. This study aimed to evaluate the integration of transitional areas with existing street infrastructure. The development characterized by eclectic has the potential to weaken the connections between traditional urban zones and the broader urban framework. Despite their proximity to pedestrian-dense areas, these zones are not well integrated into the broader street network. This disconnection has a deleterious effect on their accessibility and continuity in urban narratives. This study used a space syntax framework to examine pedestrian mobility and social interactions in conventional urban environments. Transitional spaces in Malatya's city center are inadequately integrated into the street network, resulting in their exclusion from urban life. This absence of integration limits social interactions within traditional urban spaces. This study posits that urban planning can quantitatively express essential components such as cultural heritage and social relationships. This argument is particularly salient in the context of the ongoing urban transformation that has occurred in the aftermath of the earthquake. Additionally, this study emphasizes the importance of evaluating social relationships through the lens of spatial data in the domains of urban planning and design.

While today’s technology, consumer culture and capitalism create a new world order, such order increasingly dominates architectural practice. Consumer culture and capitalism, supported by Cartesian thought, have a “homogenizing” effect on the architectural object. With ideational and visual repetitions, spaces become the same, and the standardization becomes normalized and admired. This representation-oriented repetition model in architecture limits the diversity, creativity and potentials. Accordingly, the study approaches repetition not as a homogenizing structure, but as one that generates difference. The study, taking Deleuze’s philosophy of repetition as its theoretical focus, employs theory-driven qualitative content analysis as its method. Within this framework, by establishing an ontological, epistemological and operative distinction, theoretical framework is related to architectural practice through Bernard Cache. Using MAXQDA software, codes generated from the theoretical concepts in Deleuze’s “Difference and Repetition” are comparatively analyzed against the content of Cache’s “Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories”. In this analysis the philosophy of repetition is framed not as the design of a singular form, but as the design of form-generating processes. This provides a conceptual framework that transfers Cache’s architecture from producing objects to producing processes; from copying to generating variations; and from static forms to dynamic topologies. Thus, what is constituted in the field of architecture is not merely a formal innovation, but a multilayered transformation encompassing conceptual, technical and productive dimensions.

This study examines the theoretical trajectory, methodological openings, and conceptual patterns of assemblage theory in 21st-century urban research. Moving beyond structuralist limitations in explaining urban complexity, the research evaluates assemblage's capacity to conceptualize the city as a relational process of becoming rather than a static object. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was conducted in Web of Science and Scopus databases in accordance with PRISMA 2020 standards; following a rigorous screening, 33 core articles were included. The research employs bibliometric mapping via VOSviewer, synthesized with a qualitative thematic synthesis to decode the field's intellectual structure.
Results indicate that the literature is organized through a horizontal and relational distribution of multiple theoretical intensities rather than a single center. The thematic synthesis reveals four primary clusters: Relational urbanism and the ontology of becoming, urban spatial politics and power struggles, ethical and methodological transformation in planning, and affective micro-practices. These clusters function as interconnected multiplicities with fluid boundaries, indicating that assemblage has evolved from philosophical abstraction into a functional methodological toolbox equipped with techniques such as tracing, mapping, and case-study analysis. The study concludes that assemblage is a relational reading practice offering a new research opening where structuralist readings falter. However, a strategic gap is identified regarding the concept of "desire," which remains overshadowed by "affect" in empirical studies. This highlights that the field maintains a theoretically open structure conducive to further ethical, political, and methodological deepening.

This study examines the role of resident agency in shaping the urban fabric of Ottoman Istanbul through a qualitative content analysis of 137 court cases (1600–1839). It investigates how individual interventions in residential buildings, such as additions, window modifications, and boundary adjustments, were negotiated within a hybrid legal system combining Islamic law (sharʿī), customary practice (ʿurf), and imperial edicts. By focusing on disputes over spatial interfaces, the research illuminates the dynamic processes through which physical boundaries between public and private domains were actively defined by inhabitants through daily practice and localized dispute resolution, rather than by centralized planning alone. The findings demonstrate that residents functioned as primary agents in shaping the urban environment. The transitional zones between streets and properties, and between neighbouring buildings, were largely formed through incremental, resident-led interventions, adjudicated by courts in cases of disputes using core principles such as principle of damage (lā ḍarar wa-lā ḍirār) and right of precedence (ḥaqq al-qadīm). This judicial mediation fostered a socially-embedded, negotiated spatial order, a form of organic urban co-production that operated alongside, and often independently of, formal municipal codes. The study contributes to historical urban studies by elucidating the socio-legal mechanics of everyday city-making in a pre-modern Islamic context. It offers a substantive historical case that resonates with contemporary interests in participatory models of urban development, suggesting that adaptability and resilience can emerge from systems that institutionalize localized negotiation, legal flexibility, and community-involved conflict resolution within a shared normative framework.

This study examines how indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) embedded in Yörük pastoral lifeways contributes to environmental resilience and risk-sensitive landscape management in the Girdev Lake region of southwestern Anatolia. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between June and October 2025—including semi-structured interviews, on-site observations, and thematic content analysis—the research analyzes how everyday pastoral practices function as spatially embedded systems of environmental stewardship. Findings reveal that rotational grazing, slope-based settlement placement, and communal land-use ethics collectively shape a landscape logic that regulates human–environment interactions and influences wildfire and flood exposure. While these practices are not formally articulated as disaster management strategies, they operate as adaptive mechanisms that sustain ecological balance and support cultural continuity. The study also identifies an ongoing decline in ritual practices and transhumant mobility, raising concerns about the long-term transmission of ILK in the region. Situated within contemporary discussions on cultural landscapes, climate adaptation, and heritage governance—including international frameworks such as the Sendai Framework, the Paris Agreement, and ICOMOS–UNESCO charters—the Girdev case demonstrates how ILK systems can inform heritage-sensitive landscape planning and disaster risk reduction. The results underscore the importance of recognizing pastoral mobility and vernacular spatial practices as living heritage systems that contribute to place-based resilience and disaster preparedness.