@article{article_1757403, title={THE EVOLVING ROLE OF AN ACTIVE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: Sümerbank Ordu - Soybean Factory}, journal={Mekansal Araştırmalar Dergisi}, volume={3}, pages={113–128}, year={2025}, DOI={10.71298/maddergi.1757403}, author={Özgür, Türkan and Karadeniz, Beyza}, keywords={Yaşayan endüstri mirası, mekânsal bellek, morfolojik analiz, yeniden İşlevlendirme}, abstract={This study examines the spatial and historical transformation of the Sümerbank Ordu–Soybean Factory, constructed according to Republican-era planning principles and still in operation. The study aims to demonstrate that the factory is not only a physical structure but also a spatial reflection of the ideological, economic, and social relations that shape urban memory. Within this framework, the study employs a historical-geographical approach, utilizing mapping techniques, archival documents, and on site observations. The site was analysed across four distinct periods from its foundation to the present, focusing on land use, building density, and environmental transformation processes. The findings reveal that the factory played a decisive role in the eastward development of the city of Ordu and gradually transformed from a peripheral fringe at the coast into an inner fringe zone, gaining strong symbolic significance in urban memory. Contemporary pressures of urbanization increasingly evaluate this unique production site in terms of real estate value, threatening both physical continuity and social cohesion. The study advocates for the preservation of the factory as a living industrial heritage, proposing cultural adaptive reuse, documentation, education, and innovation-driven functions as part of a strategic planning framework for sustainable transformation. In conclusion, the Sümerbank Ordu–Soybean Factory case study demonstrates how strategically preserved and adaptively reused industrial heritage can be integrated into urban identity and the socio-spatial structure of a city.}, number={2}, publisher={Çukurova Üniversitesi}