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Record Nr.

UNINA9910372794603321

Titolo

Public Istanbul : Spaces and Spheres of the Urban / Frank Eckardt, Kathrin Wildner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2015

2015, c2008

ISBN

9783839408650

3839408652

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352)

Collana

Urban Studies

Classificazione

RR 17633

Disciplina

307.7640949618

Soggetti

Istanbul

Urban Planning

Public Space

Culture

Urbanity

Urban Studies

Turkey

Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Content    5 Preface    7 Introduction: Public Space as a Critical Concept. Adequate for Understanding Istanbul Today?    13 Mapping Social Istanbul. Extracts of the Istanbul Metropolitan Area Atlas    21 Contested Public Spaces vs. Conquered Public Spaces. Gentrification and its Reflections on Urban Public Space in Istanbul    29 Globalization, Locality and the Struggle over a Living Space. The Case of Karanfilköy    49 Fortress Istanbul. Gated Communities and the Socio-Urban Transformation    83 Peripheral Public Spaces. Types in Progress    113 Old City Walls as Public Spaces in Istanbul    141 Regenerating »Public Istanbul«. Two Projects on the Golden Horn    163 Public Transformation of the Bosporus. Facts and Opportunities    187 Introduction: Spaces of Everyday Life    209 Istanbul's Worldliness    215 Public People. Temporary Labor Migrants in Nineteenth Century



Istanbul    233 The Public and the Private: Discourses and Identifications among Vanl Women in Istanbul    255 Creating New Spaces, Claiming Rights. West African Immigrants in Istanbul    279 Whose Space, Whose Culture? Struggle for Cultural Representation in »French Street« of Istanbul    299 Sabiha in »Public Istanbul«    319 Subjects that don't count. Places that are not important. 5 Artistic Approaches    333 Notes on Contributors    349

Sommario/riassunto

Istanbul is one of the largest and most dynamic metropolises on the European continent. In the context of processes of globalization and local urban planning projects urban space is continously contested. In this anthology forms, meanings and images of these urban spaces are discussed by architects, historians, and social scientists. Through interdisciplinary approaches of theory and case studies the book delivers a deep insight into the construction and constitution of public spaces and spheres in contemporary Istanbul.

»[Es bleibt] zu hoffen, dass dieser Band in der Fachwelt auf positives Echo stößt und zu weiteren Untersuchungen des so spannenden Interagierens von Raum, Zeit und Mensch in Südosteuropa anregt!«

Reviewed in:Südostforschungen, 68 (2009), Ulrike Tischler-Hofer