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    Boundaries of Belonging: the Spatial and Social Logic of Being Yilli People in Kayseri
    (Sage Publications Inc, 2025-11-26) Mus Ozmen, Nihan; Asiliskender, Burak; Ozmen, Zehni
    This study explores the spatial, social, and cultural dynamics of being yilli, a deeply rooted local identity in Kayseri, Turkey. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, oral histories, and spatial analysis, it examines how the yilli people negotiate urban transformation through selective adaptations to modernization while maintaining traditional social boundaries. The research shows that the yilli do not passively resist change but actively reinterpret modernization to reinforce status, kinship, and symbolic belonging. Spatial relocation and investment patterns reflect economic strategies and efforts to preserve cultural distinction amid urban expansion. The findings demonstrate that urban transformation in Kayseri is both a material and cultural process, shaped by layered histories of memory, hierarchy, and social imagination. Through the case of the yilli, the study contributes to broader debates in urban sociology and cultural geography, offering insights into how culture-centered societies adapt to and reshape modernization processes.
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    The Technology of an Early Reinforced Concrete Structure in Turkey: The Great Storehouse of the Kayseri Sumerbank Textile Factory (1932-1935)
    (Scuola Pitagora Editrice, 2015) Yoney, Nilufer Baturayoglu; Asiliskender, Burak
    The former Kayse`ri Sumerbank Textile Factor(1932-1935) designed and funded by the U.S.S.R. was among the first large-scaled industrial establishments in Turkey. The so-called Great Storehouse as well as the rest of the complex constitutes an interesting case study as an early example of large-scaled reinforced concrete construction in a provincial center for Turkish and Soviet technological history. The long and narrow building measuring 135x45m is constructed in four sections with wide spanning axes based on a skeletal system, supported with slender columns and beams. The columns rise 5-6.5m from the original floor level and reach 9m along the raised central nave. The foundations are composed of double layers of square footings joined with tie beams. The partition walls are constructed with bricks while the exterior walls are tuff. All the masonry walls are held together with a weak mortar based on cement, lime and sand, and with steel reinforcing bars placed horizontally in the horizontal courses and tied to thicker steel bars vertically along the columns. Horizontal strip windows located in the upper part of the exterior walls and along the high central nave provide natural light. There are steel hangar doors along the east and west walls in almost each grid as well as two central doorways located on the short east and west facades. The reinforced concrete surfaces are left exposed while the brick walls and the interior surfaces of the tuff walls are plastered.
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    Adaptive Re-Use of Medieval Caravanserais in Central Anatolia
    (Gangemi Editore S P A, 2019) Yoney, Nilufer Baturayolu; Asiliskender, Burak; Urfalioglu, Nur
    Kayseri, located at the junction of two major trade routes from northeast to southwest and from southeast to northwest, has been a commercial center for at least 4,000 years. The 23,500 tablets found at the Assyrian trade colony in Kanesh-Karum dating around 2,000 BCE and located 20km from the modern city provide ample proof. The great number and relevant size of Medieval caravanserais around the city as well as commercial buildings at the center indicate that this importance continued. Some of these caravanserais are already in use, albeit with inadequate architectural preservation measures while others are abandoned and/or partially destroyed. Indeed, the preservation, restoration and adaptive re-use of Medieval buildings is a major problematic, bringing out issues and interventions related to lacunae and reintegration, liberation or clearance of additions, structural strengthening with traditional/contemporary technologies, partial reconstruction, consolidation, cleaning and conservation of original building materials, and preventive maintenance. This paper aims to consider the possible presentation and adaptive re-use of Seljukid caravanserais over and inventory of accessible and at least partially preserved examples, focusing on eight case studies from the late 12th and 13th centuries: Karatay Han (1240), Tuzhisar Sultan Han (1232-1236), Eshab-i Kehf Han (before 1235), Cirgalan Han, Saruhan, Agzikarahan (1231-1240), Alayhan and Oresin Han.
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    The Revolarization of Industrial Heritage: AGU Sumer Campus in Kayseri, Turkey
    (Scuola Pitagora Editrice, 2016) Asiliskender, Burak; Baturayoglu Yoney, Nilufer
    The Sumerbank Textile Factory in Kayseri (1932-1935) was one of the earliest and largest industrial complexes designed and constructed following the foundation of the Turkish Republic. This was a striking ensemble of buildings with rationalist and functionalist vocabulary, which also functioned as an urban center of social and cultural modernization, providing work and cultural/recreational activities based on a secular and westernized way of life in contrast with the existing traditional society. The factory went through a number of technological changes during its production history, and was finally closed and abandoned in 1999. The site, located along the northern development corridor of the city, and its buildings soon became derelict and were vandalized. Various projects for its regeneration as a green area were not implemented. National designation followed for the site in 2003 and for the buildings in 2007. However no conservation or adaptive re-use plans were made until the allocation of the complex to Abdullah Gul University in 2012. Today the complex is being transformed into an urban university campus. The master plan dated 2014 aims to redefine the urban and socio-cultural function of the complex. The open campus concept will welcome the citizens to an architecturally preserved and restored site with a selection of new activities focusing on culture and education at different levels where the spirit and memory of place will be sustained.