Browsing by Author "Velibeyoglu, Koray"

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The Evolving Role of Urban Designers in Generative AI-Assisted Urban Design: Mini-Block Izmir, Turkey
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2025) Ozden, Pelin; Tekerci, Eminegul; Velibeyoglu, Koray
Urban design is undergoing a paradigm shift with the integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI), introducing new modes of collaboration between designers and AI tools and expanding opportunities for data-driven and creative decision-making. However, current AI-based urban design tools remain fragmented and lack integrated workflows, often treating design stages as analysis, generation, and visualization as separate processes rather than as an interactive continuum. The study critically examines the evolving role of urban designers in AI-assisted urban design through a scoping review and a case study of the Mini-Block project in the Alsancak neighbourhood of Izmir, Turkey, focusing on how different AI tools interact and integrate within design workflows. Through a systematic evaluation of AI-driven design tools, the research identifies key limitations in how existing platforms support interoperability, iterative feedback, and collaboration between human designers and generative systems. The findings highlight that while AI enhances data processing, scenario modelling, and spatial optimisation, its full potential depends on designers' ability to manage tool interaction, interpret algorithmic outputs, and integrate contextual insights into generative design processes. The study proposes a framework for participatory AI tools that embed local knowledge in urban design workflows. It also explores the role of prompt engineering as a means of refining AI outputs to ensure contextually relevant and inclusive urban solutions. Overall, the research highlights the need for AI models that are not only technically robust but also socially and culturally responsive, paving the way for more adaptive, inclusive, and participatory urban design methods.
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The Multi-Level Policy Learning of Environmental Policy: Insights From Izmir
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019) Velibeyoglu, Koray; Mengi, Onur
A European Union (EU) membership perspective is important for Turkey's harmonization with EU standards, which could have positive outcomes especially in the area of smart environmental management. However, as recent political developments suggest, Turkey is losing hope of full EU membership, and is searching for alternatives, such as privileged partnership. Active contributions of city-level good practices are urgently needed. Policy learning is a part of this process, and an emergent result of ever-changing negotiations involving a multiplicity of actors at the multi-level perspective (MLP). The present study investigates the glocal environmental policy of Izmir, via a review of recent governmental environmentally sensitive local innovative practices. The findings reveal that innovative environments that increase learning-by-doing and learning-by-using will become critical for environmental policy learning in Izmir and perhaps beyond.
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Place Management of a Creative City: the Case of Izmir
(Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, 2017) Mengi, Onur; Durmaz, Sıdıka Bahar; Oner, Asli Ceylan; Velibeyoglu, Koray
This study investigates how place management is used to render a creative city through the combination of soft factors as intangible characteristics and hard factors as tangible characteristics of the built environment. The study focuses on Izmir, Turkey; exploring its potential as an emerging creative city. The methodology is a descriptive analysis of recent urban design and planning activities of creative cities, reviews projects and strategies in Izmir. Findings provide a framework for place management tools and their strategic use for integration of art, design, creativity and knowledge in creative cities. Place management is used as a tool for image building and identity enhancement, and for quality of place to attract creative and knowledge workers. In the case of Izmir, hard factors triggered the formation process whereas soft factors have taken strengthen the initiative. However, both of them are yet not strong enough to creative public awareness and critical mass.
Triple Helix Spaces: A Tale of Three Helices
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2025) Kose, Suheda; Elburz, Zeynep; Velibeyoglu, Koray; Oner, Asli Ceylan
In recent years, the Triple Helix model has gained prominence within academic circles. This study, situated in the field of city planning, aims to clarify the model's theoretical foundations, evaluate its measurement techniques, and explore the relationship between the Triple Helix and urban space. By examining 231 Triple Helix-related publications from the past 40 years (up to 12 July 2024, sourced from the Web of Science Core Collection), we propose a framework of three distinct generations for understanding Triple Helix spaces in urban contexts. The first-generation Triple Helix space is characterized by direct interactions among the three primary actors: university, industry, and government. The second-generation expands on this by including multiple interactions among the three main actors and their facilitators. The third-generation involves the circular interaction of multiple second-generation Triple Helix spaces. Across these generations, the study provides a lens for analyzing innovative urban spaces through Triple Helix interactions and offers practical approaches for examining the Triple Helix spaces. The findings also contribute to the theoretical foundation for the sustainable development of such spaces.
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Wedding Wear Cluster in Izmir: How Does the Creative Knowledge Ecosystem Self-Operate?
(Lookus Scientific, 2013) Mengi, Onur; Velibeyoglu, Koray
The present research aims to analyze the ways of the creative knowledge ecosystem is being self-operated in a certain environment in order to comprehend how creativity and knowledge flow and exchange are generated within the creative industries framework. Creative knowledge ecosystem refers to all the physical and organizational mechanism of the creative environment which together form a self-sufficient entity. For this study, how firms feed and supply each other, how they survive and sustain their production and distribution processes within such entity thus becomes essential. Therefore, a wedding wear cluster in Izmir, Mimar Kemalettin Fashion District, has been chosen as a case study. The methodology consists of semi-structured interviews with the managers, designers and workers employed in the wedding wear and fashion-linked firms located in the district. The data is collected and processed by means of the DICE method. The findings reveal particular ecosystem characteristics within the wedding wear cluster, and present its current organizational conditions regarding the ecosystem major components; distribution, interaction, competition, and evolution.