The proper question to ask would not be on how to quickly amend the disorganization and the level of common sense deviations confronting the city. That would not be possible. There would be no quick fix to the three-dimensional urban manifestations of such short term flawed thinking.  In the case of Rome, where the city was also confronted with a disorganized ununified city fabric, the visionary with power at the time, Pope Sixtus the Fifth, had set in motion a long term generational urban effort by the architects/artists and engineers of Rome to bring about a successful urban composition that has been proudly preserved as of today.

By establishing certain points in space via the utilization of his acquired Ancient Egyptian obelisks, he had planted the proper seeds for the cumulative and generational efforts in the urban design of today’s Rome. It had taken many centuries to arrive at the urban form of today. Urban Design is an art form that must have time as an indispensable ally in order to establish a successful urban fabric.

Regarding the city of Adana, if we could select certain strategically vital zones/points in this current messy and dysfunctional urban fabric and set to motion a catalyst in the form of a small scale urban project, we could start the urban renewal locomotive as how Pope Sixtus had done in the 16^th century AD. Not by copying his urban strategies word for word, but by simply finding a relevant intervention in the fabric that may initiate a generational chain reaction.

In my opinion, the catalyst could be the establishment of a proper Cilician city block. There currently is no existing block typology for this given region, hence the undesired freedom of our planners in the forming of geometrically undefined plot geometries. The first thing we must introduce is the establishment of a Cilician block with all its composed dimensions, which works with the Mediterranean climate and the Cilican people.

Below are some examples of Urban Blocks from the World: