AN HISTORICAL CREATIVE CLUSTER: BABIALI - ISTANBUL

Year 2013, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 75 - 84, 01.12.2013

Pınar Hansoy Nuran Zeren Gülersoy

Abstract

Creative industries are among the most dynamic sectors of the world economy.
The studies in regional and urban policies are being accepted and developed to
attract creative economies and sustain their synergy. Istanbul, one of the most
rapidly growing metropolises of the world, encapsulates these values and desires a
circumspect planning agenda. Babıali is one of the historic clusters in Istanbul,
until late 1990s, known and described as the capital city of Turkish (printed)
media. It is the district named after the sublime port- high port - ottoman port:
Babıali Port, where the printed media was settled since 1980s. The transformation
of the area is a deductive example to observe an irreversible decision and a great
loss for the emerging concept of creative city.
The question to be dealt with will be whether if the originality, uniqueness and
value of this very special formation of Istanbul is a loss after the decentralization
of the Historic Peninsula. The method of the study is to observe through the
literature and through series of interviews to give an essence of a historic creative
cluster and to understand the needs of the creative people. Especially to
determine the spatial needs of this creative sector, the interviews were again
pathfinder. Also the rich literature about Babıali enables us to realize the
magnificent nascence of the district.
By surveying the area with the help the former workers, writers, artists and
publishers, and analysing the secondary literature on this subject, we aim to
contribute to the positive effects of clustering on creativity and the ongoing
decentralization process from city centers to the peripheries, where various studies
argue about the originality and diversity of the clusters are important to attract and
sustain the competitiveness of the cities.

Keywords

Creative Cluster, Media, Creative Economy, Babıali

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