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Record Nr.

UNINA9910372794603321

Titolo

Public Istanbul : spaces and spheres of the urban / / edited by Frank Eckardt and Kathrin Wildner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

3-8394-0865-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352)

Collana

Urban Studies

Classificazione

RR 17633

Disciplina

307.7640949618

Soggetti

City planning

Public spaces

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.

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