Can appreciation for urban water heritage and awareness of the present-day water crisis be connected in mutually beneficial ways? What are the contributions that heritage specialists, historians, archaeologists, conservation architects, urban planners, designers and policy makers can make towards developing integrated solutions? In the autumn of 2022, the Netherlands Institute in Turkey (NIT) offered a graduate-level course program entitled “NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Water Heritage for Sustainable Cities”. It explored innovative ways to develop informed strategies to promote urban sustainability in times of climate crisis through the use of tangible and intangible water heritage. Fokke talks us through the significance of water heritage in Istanbul to understand the intricate connections between water and the city, both in history and the present-day.

Episode 48 – A River Runs Through It

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MAIN IMAGE COURTESY FOKKE GERRITSEN.