Kentsel ve Kolektif Belleğin Sürekliliği Bağlamında Kamusal Mekanlar: ULAP Platz Örneği, Almanya

Abstract

Since the beginning of 20th century there has been a rapid change in the built environment as well as the lifestyles. This change evokes people to question more about the past and there has been growing interest in research about the issues of cultural origins and heritage such as memory, identity and belonging. Among these research, some has looked into various relations between memory and space but additionaly, this paper focuses on one further relationship between them; the continuity. This paper aims to underline this relationship through the analyses of ULAP Platz Project established in Berlin City. After its establishment in 2008, the ULAP Platz Project in Berlin, has been awarded “The European Prize for Urban Public Space” in 2010 because of its remarkable sensitivity on urban and collective memory. The history which the project carries from the past to the future and its manner towards the continuity of urban and social memory are the reasons of why it is a appropriate and fertile example for this paper.